Maurice Bernstein
Maurice was born and raised in Manchester, UK, and immersed himself in music and club culture at an early age. After graduating high school and spending a year traveling in the United States, Europe and Middle East, he moved to London to study Islamic Law at SOAS (University of London). In 1987, Maurice moved to […]
Rosie Lopez
Rosie Lopez is President of Tommy Boy Music. Before becoming President of Tommy Boy, she spent six years as Head of Marketing and International at Tommy Boy, and two years as its Vice President. During these years she developed and led marketing campaigns for all releases including Ghostface Killah’s critically acclaimed “36 Seasons”, and three […]
Len Horowitz
Len Horowitz is one of the world’s leading authorities on Westrex/Scully and Neumann disc recording systems, which produce 90% of lacquer disc masters for vinyl reproduction. He has been involved with audio service, restoration, research and development for analog sound equipment for over 45 years, specializing in design engineering for recording heads and amps, microphone […]
Bob George
George is the Co-Founder and Director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music. The initial donation of 47,000 discs that began ARC came from his personal collection. Mr. George came to New York City in 1974 as a visual arts student at the Whitney Museum Studio Program. From 1975 to 1979, he co-directed performance artist Laurie […]
Charles Kirmuss
Inventor, Pioneer, Audiophile and always a Nerd! Charles B. Kirmuss has several patents issued and pending on a variety of matters, including in 2018 his Record Groove Restoration System. He discovered the existence of a release agent in record grooves that led to his restoration process that may restore the breath of even 50-year-old pressings. […]
Joanna Demers
Joanna Demers is Professor of Musicology at USC Thornton. She received a PhD in musicology (Princeton, 2002) and a DMA in contemporary flute performance (UC San Diego, 2002). Her teaching interests include popular and experimental music since 1945, philosophy, aesthetics, and electronic music. Joanna writes both scholarly and creative works that explore philosophical issues in […]
Lilli Lewis
Lilli Lewis’s mesmerizing solo set at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s 50th Anniversary set her apart as one of New Orleans’ rising stars. Lewis celebrates folk music from the African-American tradition, drawing inspiration from all of its forms from Odetta to Bill Withers. Said to bear “the power of Aretha with the style of […]
Kyle Devine
Kyle Devine is Head of Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music (MIT Press 2019). It’s about the history of what recordings are made of, and what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of. “I focus on three […]
Sarah Murray
Sarah Murray is a music and sustainability professional who currently works full time for Merchbar – a retail marketplace for 100% authentic music merchandise, and the worldwide official merchandise partner for Spotify. Previously working on the label and distribution side at both Warner Music Group & Saddle Creek Records, Sarah is keen on infusing her […]
Jett Galdino
Jett Galindo is a Los Angeles-based mastering engineer who works alongside Eric Boulanger at The Bakery. With engineering credits spanning different genres and artists (Nile Rodgers, Green Day, Barbra Streisand, Haley Reinhart and Colbie Caillat, to name a few), Jett Galindo carries on the legacy left behind by her late mentor, mastering legend Doug Sax […]
