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Owner/Engineer Mike Foss has hired Stephen Avril as a Second Engineer at Stepping Stone Studios in Seattle. And Stephen hasn't even finished the program yet! Stepping Stone was responsible for recording Nirvana, Sound Garden and Pearl Jam. They are scheduled to record the Foo Fighters this year. |
| J.D. of 35th Street Studios in Chicago has hired Justin Birchard on to do Digital Music Editing for the studio. Justin is the third Entertainment Connection student that J.D. has hired in less than a year. |  |
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 Entertainment Connection graduate Terrence Terrell has his hands full these days: he has recently joined the staff of The Cutting Room in New York City, as well as securing a position with Interscope Records. |
| Brian Levi, owner/chief
engineer of Clear Lake Audio in Los Angeles says: "Preston
Boebel has been 'firsting' sessions for me since his completion of
the Music Connection course last month. Now we have officially hired
him on as a First Engineer. Being a Los Angeles-based major
studio, we have a steady flow of national acts in our room. The great
people skills Preston demonstrated during his apprenticeship were
well-matched by his engineering talent. Thanks for sending him our way!" |
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Sasha Pariulus has been hired on to do Audio
Post Production for Center City Film Company in
Philadelphia, PA. Mentor Damon Alberts and the staff at Center
City hired Sasha only five months after she enrolled in the program.
Center City is so pleased with the success of the Music Connection
program they have now agreed to take on students in the Film program as
well. |
| Brian Levi, owner/chief
engineer of Clear Lake Audio in Los Angeles says: "Preston
Boebel has been 'firsting' sessions for me since his completion of
the Music Connection course last month. Now we have officially hired
him on as a First Engineer. Being a Los Angeles-based major
studio, we have a steady flow of national acts in our room. The great
people skills Preston demonstrated during his apprenticeship were
well-matched by his engineering talent. Thanks for sending him our way!" |
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Sasha Pariulus has been hired on to do Audio
Post Production for Center City Film Company in
Philadelphia, PA. Mentor Damon Alberts and the staff at Center
City hired Sasha only five months after she enrolled in the program.
Center City is so pleased with the success of the Music Connection
program they have now agreed to take on students in the Film program as
well. |
Ex-Music Connection student Mike Croos has been taking advantage of Music Connection's 7-year free job placement assistance and it is paying off. Mike has been hired on to do in-house sound for feature films at Granite House Film Productions in Austin. This is Mike's second job in the industry after being hired on as an Assistant Engineer with Sugar Hill studios in Houston. |
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Todd Stanton, through Music Connection,
has been working as an engineer for the past two years. He just phoned
to let us know he has been promoted to Chief Staff Engineer at The
Factory in Vancouver, Canada, the studio that just in the past year
has recorded Marilyn Manson and David Bowie. |
| Omar Salazar has officially started as an independent Producer/Engineer with Audiotron Recording Studios in San Diego, and just finished his first CD with a Latin rock group at the studio. He also represented the group and our studio last month at the EAT'M (Emerging Artists and Talent in Music) Convention. |  |
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Janice Quihano has been
hired on to do Audio Post on Pro Tools for The Dungeon
Studios, in Miami. "After training side by side with my mentor [and
studio owner] Fred, it didn't take long for him to have confidence
enough in me to give me the job," said Janice. "Fred is also expanding
his second room and there are more opportunites for me here than I ever
imagined." |
 Congratulations to student Arthur Dillon: after
only 3 months
in the program Arthur has been hired on at Prime Time Studios
in New York as an Assistant Audio Engineer. Prime Time also
asked Arthur to become part of their Live Sound Reinforcement
crew. And he's only half way through the course! |
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"Ken Stelli is assisting Chief
Engineer Michael McDonald on sessions and working as an Audio
Post Engineer in our film music department," says Robin Whitney,
studio manager for Private Island Trax in Hollywood. "Ken is
the fourth Music Connection student to be hired here! He had the
motivation and tenacity to succeed from day one of your program. I
don't know what screening process you have your potential applicants go
through, but keep it up! I thank you once again for helping us as
studio owners find quality audio engineers." |
| Casey Moreno
has been hired on full-time at Story Road Recording in San
Francisco. "After only three assignments in your Music Connection
course we were very pleased with Casey's work, and we saw tremendous
potential for him in this industry. Your program was the "in" he needed
to embark on his long education as an Audio Engineer," says
owner Anthony Imperial." |
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Joey Heir of Crystal Clear
Studios in Philadelphia, PA reports: "We did it again, Jimi! I am
pleased to announce that only two weeks after graduating your student Erica
Cylinder from your apprentice program, I was able to land her a
full time gig with Sound on Sound, the area's largest pro
audio, live sound company. The company has also expressed interest in
more of Entertainment Connection students, so keep them coming . . . " |
| "Even though we are a small studio, we couldn't
afford to let your student Paul O'Connor move on," says Doug
Roysden of Baca Music in Abilene, TX. "I have hired Paul to
assist and engineer sessions. I know he learned in a few short months
what took me 20 years and tens of thousands of dollars in experience to
learn. Paul's musical background has also helped his producing skills
for many of the bands that we have been recording. Thank you for
allowing me to be a part of your program." |
| Bill Taylor of WLAN
Radio in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was so pleased with student Jerry
Moore that this week he hired Jerry on to do Audio Production
full time for the station. Jerry is also doing all the station's
digital editing on their ProTools Digital Workstation. "Jerry not only
has good technical skills, but is an artist as well--which makes him a
great asset to our production team," says Bill. |
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Six months ago, Music Connection student Vinnie
Mascola had never even seen the inside of a real recording studio.
He has just been offered a position with the legendary Jimi Hendrix
studio Electric Lady in New York City, announced Richard
Oliver, Chief Engineer. |
| Music Connection graduate Walter
Dombroskie scored at a gig at Peppermint Productions,
assisting mixing two Grammy-nominated recordings by Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones.
He recently recently landed a job mixing the debut CD of a New
York-based hard rock band called Turbulence, which will be
released this fall. |
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John, a Recording Connection student is very happy he chose to attend the Recording Connection audio schoo. Not only can he work around his day job, but he is finally doing what he wants to do.
