John Hill
Professor
Audio for Media
Techniques of Recording
Critical Listening
Advanced Technology ofRecording
Advanced Music Engineering
Office: Comm 209
Phone: 615.898.5868
Email: jphill@mtsu.edu
Web: www.mtsu.edu/~jphill
John Hill, professor of recording industry,
received his B.Mus. degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and
his M.Mus. (Sound Recording) degree from McGill University in
Montreal. He was an associate professor at California State University
Dominguez Hills, where he taught classes in music recording, production
and theory.
In 1989, Mr. Hill was an associate audio engineer at the Banff
Centre, where he worked with Paul Plimley and Dave Holland. From
1990 - ‘95 he was the co-director of the Edgar Stanton Audio
Recording Institute at the Aspen Music Festival, where he was
responsible for the live-to-stereo recording of all live concert
events, the development of an audio recording curriculum and the
management of students, interns, staff engineers and guest lecturers.
(see sidebar image with Aspen staff and students)
Mr. Hill has produced and engineered numerous
projects with artists in the classical, jazz and pop music fields.
He currently records all of the Classical Series concerts at TPAC
for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. His recording of Buxtehude
Cantatas for McGill University Records won the Noah Greenberg
Award from the American Musicological Society. He has completed
many projects with MTSU colleagues including Raphael Bundage,
Don Aliquo, Dana Landry and John Fishell.
Mr. Hill was the recipient of the MTSU Creative
Activity Award for 2001/02.
Mr. Hill is a member of the Audio Engineering
Society (AES).
