- Eberhard Sengpiel
Eberhard Sengpiel is a multiple
Grammy award -winning sound engineer. He is also a musician in his own right and a lecturer at theBerlin University of the Arts , (Universität der Künste, Berlin) UdK-Berlin.Career
Sengpiel studied electrical engineering in
Berlin (Germany ). As a musician, he studied composition and led several dance music bands. He was a development engineer in the field of audio technology and was among the developers of the HiFi standard DIN 45500. As a sound engineer, he worked with pop musicians such asReinhard Mey , Peter Maffay, and the Fischer Choirs; in the field of classical music, he is doing recordings of theNew York Philharmonic , theBerlin Philharmonic , the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C. ), theSaint Paul Chamber Orchestra , theChicago Symphony Orchestra , TheCleveland Orchestra and various famous chamber music artists, to mention only Il Giardino Armonico, Andreas Staier, and Concerto Cologne (Concerto Köln).He lectures at the
Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin - Tonmeister Institute) on microphone recordings and analog and digital sound studio technologies in surround sound and stereo for tonmeister students. [http://www.sengpielaudio.com]Grammy awards
Sengpiel has won the following Grammys as a sound engineer:
*2002 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) : "Richard Strauss : Wind Concertos"
**Horn Concerto No. 1Dale Clevenger - Horn
**Strauss: Oboe ConcertoAlex Klein - Oboe,Larry Combs - Clarinet,Daniel McGill - Bassoon,Daniel Barenboim - Conductor/Piano,Chicago Symphony Orchestra .
*2003 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording : "Richard Wagner :Tannhäuser orTannhauser
**Daniel Barenboim (conductor),Jane Eaglen , Thomas Hampson,Waltraud Meier ,René Pape ,Peter Seiffert , Choir of the German State Opera of Berlin and the State Orchestra of Berlin (Opera unter den Linden).External links
* [http://www.sengpielaudio.com Forum for microphone recordings and sound studio techniques. Sengpiel's official site] is mostly in German (although with some English-language material). It includes an extensive discography and much material related to his lectures on sound recordings for the Berlin Tonmeister Institute.Very famous are his:
* [http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm Audio calculators, formulas, and converters useful in acoustics and in recording techniques (in English)]
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