“I’m not interested in these old scores. I want to play them now, as if ‘I’ had
composed them just last week, bringing them to you for the very first time.”
Tom Beghin is at the forefront of a new generation of interpreters of eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century music. His discography includes 10 CDs on the Bridge, Claves, Eufoda, and Et’cetera labels. As a scholar he has published in major musicological journals and volumes, and has co-edited Haydn and the Performance of Rhetoric (University of Chicago Press, 2007; winner of the AMS 2009 Ruth A. Solie Award). His mentors include Malcolm Bilson, James Webster, Rudolf Buchbinder, Jean Goverts, and Alan Weiss. He is currently Associate Professor at McGill University.
http://people.mcgill.ca/tom.beghin
“The biggest challenge in this project is not the recording of all this music and
dealing with the different instruments, but how to blend the virtual room
into the sound that Tom is producing.”
An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production, Martha de Francisco has credits on over 300 recordings, most of them for worldwide release on the main record labels. She has worked in the best concert halls and has collaborated with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time. Her research topics include the latest surround-sound techniques, music recording with virtual acoustics, and the aesthetics of recorded music. At present she is Associate Professor at McGill University.
http://people.mcgill.ca/martha.defrancisco
“You can measure specifically, but at the end the human ear is going to be
interpreting what these measurements really mean for the perceived image of the room.
So I would call myself, I suppose, an architect of virtual acoustics.”
Wieslaw Woszczyk holds the James McGill Professorship in Sound Recording at McGill University. Internationally recognized as a researcher and educator in audio technology, he is the founding director of CIRMMT and McGill’s Graduate Program in Sound Recording. He was President of the Audio Engineering Society, Chair of the AES Technical Council, and is currently AES Governor. His current research addresses virtual acoustics, high-resolution audio, and remote real-time communication of multisensory content using broadband networks.
http://people.mcgill.ca/wieslaw.woszczyk/
GRADUATE STUDENT COLLABORATORS
Erin Helyard (MMus ’05, PhD-candidate) assisted in historical research
and artistic supervision.
Doyuen Ko (MMus ’08, PhD-candidate) prepared the virtual rooms,
was mixing and mastering engineer, and occasional recording engineer.
Ryan Miller (MMus ’08) was recording and editing engineer, and signed
off on the final edited versions.
Jeremy Tusz (MMus ’06) was recording and editing engineer,
photographer, videographer, and co-director of Playing the Room.