Announcing the results of the 125th AES Convention Student Recording Competition in San Francisco.
Classical
1st - John Fredenburg, Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
2nd - Elaine Maltezos, University of Miami
3rd Tobias Hoff, Universität der Künste Berlin
Judges: Martha De Francisco, Peter Cook, David Bowles
Jazz/Blues
1st - Rishi Daftuar, University of Michigan
2nd - Tobias Hoff, Universität der Künste Berlin
3rd - Julian David, University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf
Judges: Graemme Brown, Leslie Ann Jones, Steve Bellamy
World Folk
1st - Tobia Hoff, Universität der Künste Berlin
2nd - Timothy Miller and Thomas Dyer, Middle Tennessee State University
3rd - David Bell, University of Miami
Judges: Bob Ludwig, Paul Stubblebine, Bob Katz
Pop/Rock
1st - Trevor Simpson, University of Maryland
2nd - Brian Losch, The Banff Centre
3rd - Phillip J. Shirks Jordan, Middle Tennessee State University
Judges: Tony Berg, Shawn Everett
Sound for Picture
Finalist - Michael McConnell, Cogswell Polytechnical College
Judges: Michael Nunan, Mark Willsher, Luke Dunn Gielmuda
Classical Surround
1st - Nathan Chandler, McGill University
2nd - Dave Vettraino, Indiana University
Honorable Mention - Tetsuro Kanai, Tokyo University of the Arts
Judges: Kimio Hamasaki, David Bowles, Martha De Francisco
Non-Classical Surround
1st - James Clemens-Seely, The Banff Centre
2nd - Julian David, University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf
3rd - Michael Zuehsow and Alex Moore, Middle Tennessee State University
Judges: David Glasser, Bob Ludwig, Rory Kaplan
Congratulations to all finalists, and thank you to all participants in the student competition. Also, a huge thank you to all of the companies that donated prizes for the winners of the competition:
AEA, AKG, Digidesign, Genelec, Harman/JBL, Lavry Engineering, PMC Schoeps, Sennheiser/Neumann, Shure, Ron Streicher, Yamaha.
