Michael Fleming
Assistant Professor
Applied Digital Audio
Recording Techniques
Classical Music Recording
Office: Ezell 105A
Phone: 615.898.2029
Email: mfleming@mtsu.edu
Michael holds a Masters of Music in Sound Recording
degree from McGill University's Tonmeister program (Montreal,
Canada). While an undergraduate at Carleton College (Northfield,
Minnesota), Michael was an active orchestral violinist and chamber
musician as well as a theatrical designer and performer. After
receiving an honors degree in physics, he traveled to England
on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to participate in acoustical
research at the University of Bath and to study classical music
recording in collaboration with the BBC, EMI, Decca and others.
From 1996 to 1999, Michael was the associate producer of WGBH
(Boston) Radio's "Classical Performances," a daily program
that featured live studio recitals and original Boston-area concert
recordings. He has received awards for production excellence from
the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and the National Federation
of Community Broadcasters. For several years, he was heard regularly
as a voice talent on Public Radio International's news program
"The World."
As a staff engineer for the Boston Symphony
Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center, Michael has recorded and
mixed performances by artists and ensembles ranging from Diana
Krall and Tony Bennett to violinist Gil Shaham, the Emerson String
Quartet and the Boston Pops. His production credits as engineer
and/or producer also include work with the German Youth Symphony
Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Boston
Chamber Music Society, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, the New York
Collegium, the Handel and Haydn Society and many others. He has
recorded and produced public radio features on numerous musical
events and festivals, including Summerfest La Jolla, the Newport
Music Festival, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival and the Boston
Early Music Festival. Michael has also been an audio engineering
staff member at the Aspen Music Festival, the Interlochen Center
for the Arts, and he recently supervised the live sound reinforcement
for the North Carolina School of the Arts’ "Illuminations
Summer Festival" on Roanoke Island.
From 2001 to 2004, Michael served on the faculty
of the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University (Boone,
NC), where he designed and installed the audio systems infrastructure
for a new three-room recording studio, taught audio production
and played fiddle in the Celtic band Sunday’s Well. Michael
joined the faculty at MTSU in the fall of 2004.
Michael is a member of the Audio Engineering
Society and the national music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda.
