Yamaha C6 is "Key Component" to Kilgore's Success
BUENA PARK, CA (December 23, 2005) — Veteran recording engineer John Kilgore recognized a good opportunity when it came knocking. Since 1986, he was director of recording services and engineer/sound designer for Masque Sound, a gem of the NYC recording scene since 1936. This past spring, when third-generation owners Geoff and James Shearing shifted their focus to live sound, Kilgore took over the studio and renamed it John Kilgore Sound & Recording. The full-service recording studio now specializes in music recording and post-production/mixing for film and television as well as sound effects, voice-overs and music editing for theater, film, dance and multimedia.
John Kilgore, owner of John Kilgore Sound & Recording, and studio manager Vera Beren at the studio's Yamaha C6 piano. Photo Credit: John Kilgore |
Artists who have completed projects at the studio run an eclectic gamut, from Eric Idle and Gwyneth Paltrow to Mario, Mandy Patinkin, the New York Philharmonic, and a who’s who of Broadway music directors. “We had established a remarkable reputation,” says Kilgore, “and when the opportunity arose to carry on the tradition under my own banner, I couldn’t let it pass.”
The studio has a Yamaha C6 conservatory grand piano, which Kilgore calls “a key component to our success, just incredible good fortune.”
“We acquired it from Westrax Studios and Cabaret and it came with a following, even from people who had never played it,” he says. “There are good pianos and great pianos and this one’s a great one. It records beautifully, for jazz, for Broadway shows, for cabaret. My background as a recording engineer, particularly with classical pianists, has made me fairly finicky and I’m very pleased with this piano’s response.”
Since taking the helm, Kilgore has expanded his base of operations while maintaining the studio’s vibrant niche in the Broadway show community. Recent projects include theatrical projects such as Spamalot, The Glass Menagerie and Julius Caesar as well as Disney’s upcoming Phil Collins’ Tarzan, an Alan Menkin project for Disney in Tokyo, and a series of recordings for Tony Benjamin, who’s worked with Destiny’s Child, Mario and Beyoncé. On the Transmigraton of Souls, (Nonesuch), an orchestral work by composer John Adams that Kilgore mixed last year, won three GRAMMY® Awards in February.
“We just finished a project with Italian jazz great Arrigo Cappelletti, who was recommended by jazz pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough,” says Kilgore. “Frank loves our Yamaha C6 and recommended the studio because of it. And the book, Everything is Illuminated, is being made into a movie; the composer, Paul Cantelon, won’t play anything else. The C6 records beautifully and that’s what really counts. It’s a tremendous asset.”
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
The studio has a Yamaha C6 conservatory grand piano, which Kilgore calls “a key component to our success, just incredible good fortune.”
“We acquired it from Westrax Studios and Cabaret and it came with a following, even from people who had never played it,” he says. “There are good pianos and great pianos and this one’s a great one. It records beautifully, for jazz, for Broadway shows, for cabaret. My background as a recording engineer, particularly with classical pianists, has made me fairly finicky and I’m very pleased with this piano’s response.”
Since taking the helm, Kilgore has expanded his base of operations while maintaining the studio’s vibrant niche in the Broadway show community. Recent projects include theatrical projects such as Spamalot, The Glass Menagerie and Julius Caesar as well as Disney’s upcoming Phil Collins’ Tarzan, an Alan Menkin project for Disney in Tokyo, and a series of recordings for Tony Benjamin, who’s worked with Destiny’s Child, Mario and Beyoncé. On the Transmigraton of Souls, (Nonesuch), an orchestral work by composer John Adams that Kilgore mixed last year, won three GRAMMY® Awards in February.
“We just finished a project with Italian jazz great Arrigo Cappelletti, who was recommended by jazz pianist/composer Frank Kimbrough,” says Kilgore. “Frank loves our Yamaha C6 and recommended the studio because of it. And the book, Everything is Illuminated, is being made into a movie; the composer, Paul Cantelon, won’t play anything else. The C6 records beautifully and that’s what really counts. It’s a tremendous asset.”
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
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