AES Student Blog

Loyal audio guru Jim Anderson will be judging student entries at AES 132. Come hear his expert critiques at the Recording Competition Finals in Budapest!

"Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations in the recording industry: his recordings have received nine Grammy awards and 25 Grammy nominations; his radio recordings have received two George Foster Peabody Awards and there have been two Emmy nominations for television programs.

A graduate of the Duquesne University School of Music in Pittsburgh PA, Jim has studied audio engineering at the Eastman School of Music and Sender Freies Berlin. During the 1970s, he was employed by National Public Radio and engineered and produced many award-winning classical, jazz, documentary, and news programs. Since 1980 Jim has had a career as an independent audio engineer and producer, living in New York City. Jim has had a wide ranging career from the Muppets to "In Performance at the White House", to name a few of his clients. He has been a frequent lecturer and master-class guest faculty member at leading international institutes, including the Berklee College of Music, The New England Institute of Art, McGill University, The Banff Centre, Universite de Kunst in Berlin, University of Luleå in Sweden, the New School University, University of Georgia, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Penn State University. He has served as Vice President for Eastern Sections of the Audio Engineering society (AES), chaired the New York Section of the AES, Chair of the 119th AES Convention, and was Chair of the 123rd AES Convention, fall of 2007. In fall of 2006, he was made a Fellow of the AES and received the AES’ Board of Governor's Award. He is a professor and the former Chair of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded music, in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is a Past-President of the Audio Engineering Society, 2008-2009."