Scott Metcalfe
Scott Metcalfe is a recording engineer and music technologist based in Baltimore, MD where he is the chair of Music Engineering and Technology, Director of Recording Arts and Sciences, and holds the rank of Full Professor at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University.
He has engineered hundreds of recordings in many different styles of music, with a primary focus on location classical recording. Notable projects include engineering studio albums of choral works by composers Paul Mealor and Patrick Hawes, both performed by the professional choir Voce and released internationally on Signum Classics (UK); engineering two studio albums with noted double bassist Robert Black released on Mode Records; live audio recordings and livestream mix for video broadcasts with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra from Strathmore and Maryland Hall; and editing, mixing and mastering of orchestral and electronic music for three released of the Sid Meier’s Civilization series of video games.
He has been a guest on the nationally syndicated NPR program Talk of the Nation Science Friday, lectured as a guest of the Engineering Colloquium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and has presented lectures and workshops on recording engineering abroad in South Korea, Scotland and England.
In 2017, Oxford University Press published his first book Creating Sounds from Scratch on the subject of music synthesis.
Clients & Projects
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Sampling of soloists:
Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano
James Ehnes, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello
Olga Kern, piano
Elissa Lee Koljonen, piano
Wu Man, pipa
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Peter Minkler, viola
Gabriela Montero, piano
Leticia Moreno, violin
Lisa Pegher, percussion
Awadagin Pratt, piano
Vadim Repin, violin
Pascal Rogé, piano
Pepe Romero, guitar
Julian Schwarz, cello
Chee Yun, violin
Sampling of soloists (in progress):
Sarah Chang, violin
Renée Fleming, soprano
Awadagin Pratt, piano
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Atlantic Guitar Quartet
Robert Black, bassist
Theodore Bikel/Clark-Schuldmann Duo
Loadbang
Yo-Yo Ma
New York Consort of Viols
Sampling of Artists
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julia Bullock, soprano
Danish String Quartet
Dover Quartet & Joseph Conyers, double bass
Escher Quartet and Jordan Bak
Emi Ferguson, flute & Ruckus
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Richard Goode, piano
Angela Hewitt, piano
Imani Winds
Steven Isserlis, cello
Junction Trio
Miró Quartet
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
Takács Quartet
Davone Tines, bass-baritone
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Christopher Ladd, guitar
Volkan Orhon, bassist
Provost/Goldspiel
Thomas Schuttenhelm, guitar
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Sid Meier’s Civilization V (mixing and editing)
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Judah Adashi
Robert Carl
From Japan (mastering)
Roundabout (mastering)
Heather Gilligan
Living in the Light (mastering)
Sarah Meneely Kyder
Felipe Lara
David Macbride
Three Dances; Chartres
Vid Smooke
Ken Steen
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V. Cicada
VI. The Emperor of Ice Cream
VII. May Day
VIII. Ate
IX. Nein
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Temple Sounds
Val Ramos Flamenco Ensemble
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Jen Allen
Pieces of Myself (mastering)
Author:
Creating Sounds From Scratch
A Practical Guide to Music Synthesis for Producers and Composers
Andrea Pejrolo and Scott B. Metcalfe
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