Jonathan Wyner, Chief Mastering Engineer and Company President.
Jonathan has mastered more than 5000 CD's during the last 25 years spanning every musical idiom (and some non-musical idioms as well!). Jonathan holds an AB in French Horn and Composition from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY. He has been an instructor at the Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio and at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. A Recording Engineer since 1983, Jonathan began his career as a Mastering Engineer in 1985 as the compact disc was becoming a reality. He studied digital mastering with one of the pioneers in the field for 5 years prior to establishing M Works Mastering. His credits range from the extremely well known (James Taylor, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Kiri Te Kanawa), to the more idiosyncratic and independent artists/labels (Aimee Mann, Tiny Tim, Rahsaan Roland Kirk). In 2005 Jonathan received a Grammy nomination for producing a program for Deborah Henson-Conant with orchestra entitled Invention and Alchemy that also aired on PBS nationally. He has several firsts/superlatives to his credit including mastering the first interactive CD Game (Play It By Ear, Rykodisc), what we believe to be the longest CD (80:32 for Razormaid Records), the first recorded opera (Madame Butterfly recorded 1912 by the BBC). His skills extend to premastering for CD-ROM as well as forensic and restoration work using Izotope RX and Sonic Solutions' No Noise system. Jonathan prides himself in the fact that he is among the elite group of mastering engineers to have run the marathon in under 3 hours repeatedly.
The M Works staff is a talented and diverse group of industry professionals. They are:
Matthew Azevedo, Mastering Engineer.
Since joining the M Works staff in 1999, Matt has mastered hundreds of albums across the full spectrum of styles, from Armenian folk music to Hatian Zouk. His experiences as a classically trained musician, DJ, and lifetime lover of live music allow him to communicate to clients musician-to-musician order to realize the full potential of every project. He has been privileged to work with such artists as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Pills, Juliana Hatfield, Isis, Scissorfight, Mary Lou Lord, Hrvatski, Kabir, Asa Brebner, and many, many others. In addition to his work at M Works, Matt plays alto saxophone and theremin in the avante guard ensemble Ring of 17 and works with the Blackburst electronic music collective. Matt graduated Magna Cum Laude from UMass Lowell's Sound Recording Technology program.
In addition to mastering, our Music First division offers location recording of classical, jazz and other acoustic music. M Works Vice President, Bill Wolk, has 25 years experience recording concerts and recording sessions for CD release. Please call to inquire about availablity and rates.
