Tonmeister: Industry seminars & workshops
We feel that it's important that Tonmeister students are in frequent contact with leading industry practitioners. The placement year is ideal for this, as working in the industry for a year is the best way to make contacts and demonstrate your skills and abilities to potential employers.
Throughout the course, Tonmeisters are taught practical skills by our tutors and associate lecturers: individuals with many years of experience on the most prestigious projects and with leading employers. In addition to this, we have a series of visiting seminars and workshops, where we invite individuals who are leading exponents of their craft to tell our students about their experiences.
This gives Tonmeisters a chance to learn tips and techniques from the best in the industry, to ask questions about current practice and how to get started in related careers, and to make contacts and talk directly with potential employers. The seminars also introduce Tonmeisters to a wider range of jobs in the audio industry, beyond the usual studio work. So far we have had seminars on everything from composition to hardware design, and most things in-between.
Below is a list of just some of the individuals who have given seminars or workshops to Tonmeisters in recent years (in alphabetical order).
- Jim Abbiss
- Grammy award-winning engineer and producer
- (Arctic Monkeys, Adele, Kasabian, etc)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Abbiss
- thismuchtalent.wrd5.com/page.aspx?id=jim-abbiss-producer-mixer
- www.allmusic.com/artist/jim-abbiss-mn0000846181/credits
- Tonmeister graduate
- Arne Akselberg
- Grammy award-winning recording engineer
- www.abbeyroad.com/engineers/engineer/17/arne-akselberg
- www.allmusic.com/artist/arne-akselberg-mn0001262486
- Charlie Andrew
- Award-winning producer & recording engineer
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Andrew
- www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-andrew-mn0002146226
- Tonmeister graduate
- Ben Baird
- BAFTA winning dubbing mixer
- (Atlantis, Merlin, etc)
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1496435/
- Howard Bargroff
- BAFTA winning dubbing mixer
- (Sherlock, Broadchurch, Luther, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, etc)
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0054578/
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4zhnw7-Aw
- James Bellamy
- Film music editor
- (Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, Atonement, etc)
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0068699/
- Tonmeister graduate
- Simon Bishop
- Sound Supervisor & Location Recordist
- (Silent Witness, X-Factor, Britain's Got Talent, etc)
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0084192/
- www.linkedin.com/in/simon-bishop-b3779a34/
- Tonmeister graduate
- Graham Boswell
- Electronics and software engineer
- Director of Prism Sound
- Anthony Cherry
- BBC Music Producer
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01n2wtn
- Tim Dingley
- Managing Director at Focusrite
- Tonmeister graduate
- Thomas Dolby
- Producer and electronic music innovator
- www.thomasdolby.com/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dolby
- Rhys Downing
- Recording Engineer
- www.allmusic.com/artist/rhys-downing-mn0002548780
- Tonmeister graduate
- Dan Eades
- Technical Director of Environ Audio
- Designer of high end home automation systems
- Tonmeister graduate
- John Emmett
- Technical Director of Broadcast Project Research Ltd
- Will Evans
- Artist Liaison Manager, Focusrite/Novation
- Founder, Tape Club Records
- Conrad Fletcher
- Broadcast engineer
- Owner of MixBus OB recording truck
- Darryl Griffith
- Award-winning composer and orchestrator
- www.darylgriffith.com/
- Patrick Hagenaar
- Producer & DJ
- www.patrickhagenaar.com
- www.wearecolourcode.com
- Phil Hobbs
- Award-winning producer and audio consultant, www.linnrecords.com
- www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr13/articles/hobbs.htm
- Tonmeister graduate
- Jon Honeyball
- Managing Director of Woodleyside IT
- Writer for IT magazines and websites such as CloudPro and PC Pro
- Tonmeister graduate
- Ben Hillier
- Producer & engineer
- (Depeche Mode, The Magic Numbers, Elbow, etc)
- www.140db.co.uk/writerproducers/ben-hillier/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hillier
- Tonmeister graduate
- Nathan Hilton
- Composer, producer, & sound engineer, West One Music
- Tonmeister graduate
- Ben Holland
- Freelance TV sound mixer & dubbing mixer
- (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, The Graham Norton Show, 2012 Olympic Games, etc)
- www.benhollandsound.co.uk
- Tonmeister graduate
- Neo Kaplanis
- Tonmeister / Audio Research at Bang & Olufsen
- Tonmeister graduate
- Will Lingard
- PA systems engineer
- www.showhire.co.uk
- Rob Marshall
- Owner of No Stairway Media
- George Massenburg
- Award winning recording engineer & inventor
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Massenburg
- www.allmusic.com/artist/george-massenburg-mn0000945891/credits
- Dom Monks
- Recording engineer
- (Paul McCartney, Kaiser Chiefs, Laura Marling, etc)
- http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dom-monks-mn0002437356
- Tonmeister graduate
- Mandy Parnell
- Mastering engineer at Black Saloon
- Kath Pollard
- Re-recording mixer for film and TV
- Tonmeister graduate
- Dave O'Carroll
- Technical project manager at NEP Visions
- (Wimbledon 3D coverage, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert, etc)
- Tonmeister graduate
- Jon Olive
- Freelance film sound designer & music editor
- (Harry Potter, 127 Hours, The Mummy Returns, etc)
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0646621/
- Tonmeister graduate
- Michael Price
- Award-winning film & TV composer
- www.michaelpricemusic.com
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Price_(composer)
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0697048
- Tonmeister graduate
- Matt Robertson
- Musician, composer, programmer, arranger, engineer, producer, synthesist
- (Bjork, Bat for Lashes, Quantum of Solace, Hot Fuzz, etc)
- www.onesevenfive.com
- Tonmeister graduate
- Hugh Robjohns
- Technical Editor, Sound on Sound magazine
- http://www.soundonsound.com
- Andy Rogers
- Senior Producer, BBC Radio 1
- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0166zby
- Mark Rogers
- Grammy award-winning recording engineer and producer
- www.mark-rogers.com
- Tonmeister graduate
- James Shannon
- Senior Sound Consultant at Dolby Laboratories
- Tonmeister graduate
- Ian Stickland
- Theatre Design Consultant at CharcoalBlue
- (Everyman Theatre, Liverpool; Royal National Theatre, London; South Bank Centre, London; Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; etc)
- Tonmeister graduate
- Lewis Stonehouse
- Acoustic engineer, Hann Tucker Associates
- Mark Thompson
- Studio owner and owner of Funky Junk
- www.snapstudios.co.uk
- theeccentricblog.blogspot.co.uk
- Eddie Veale
- Studio designer at Veale Associates
- John Warburton
- Television documentary producer
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warburton_%28producer%29
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371814
- Tonmeister graduate
- Ollie Waton
- Engineer of audio and systems for TV and Touring
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-ollie-waton-b359b125/
- Tonmeister graduate
- Toby Wood
- Recording engineer
- www.imdb.com/name/nm0940050
- www.allmusic.com/artist/toby-wood-mn0000607468
- Billy Woodman
- Loudspeaker designer and founder / owner of ATC loudspeakers
- www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/about-atc/company-profile