Audiocation Lecturer - Audio engineers & producer
Meet our team
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Helge BeckmannAudio Engineer, Academy Director and CEO(Bachelor of Arts in Popular Music and Media / VDT / VDM / VDJ) Helge is a passionate audio engineer and guitarist. He attended the University of Paderborn, the University of Music in Detmold - one of the leading institutions for professional music education in Europe - and the Tonmeisterinstitut (recording & balancing engineering institute) in Detmold. Helge is the lecturer for the courses Audio Engineer Professional and Audio Engineer Basic. |
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Ulf WeidmannMusical director, producer and composer(Berklee College of Music, Boston/USA, Diploma: Magna Cum Laude) • 2 Gold Awards in 2005 Ulf Weidmann works as a musical director, producer and composer for artists like five-time Grammy Award-winner and Oscar-winner Christopher Cross (Ride Like The Wind), Percy Sledge (When a Man Loves a Woman), Dan McCafferty (lead singer of Nazareth), Paula Cole, John Miles jun., Rüdiger Baldauf (German TV-show »TV Total«), German singer Michelle as well as for clients from television, marketing and the film industry (Walt Disney). Ulf is the lecturer for the Songwriting/Producing course. |
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Frank ZumbroichSongwriter, drummer and producer (EMI)• German Rock and Pop Award (Deutscher Rock und Pop Preis), Producer for NulldB 2008 Songwriter and producer, for acts such as Sascha Lien (Galileo in the Queen musical in Stuttgart), Benny Martell (finalist in DSDS - German version of »Pop Idol«), Corinna May (Grand Prix), Yoomiii (TV program »Startagebuch« on channel RTL2), Frank is also a studio and session drummer for Crack Jaw, Skin Deep and Number Nine. Frank is the lecturer for the Real Drum Programming course. |
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Matthias SteinwachsSound designer, composer and authorMatthias Steinwachs has been working in radio for more than 20 years. A reporter, author, editorial assistant and producer, he works for the radio stations Radio4You (SFB’s former youth radio station), SFB 2, Inforadio Berlin, Radio Eins Live (WDR), WDR 2, WDR 5, SWR DasDing, SWR 3, HR YouFM (formerly HR XXL), MDR Sputnik and MDR Jump, and others. After composing his first soundtrack for a video game in 1990, he later worked at the legendary developer studio Thalion, where he composed the music for classics like Ambermoon and Lionheart. He also worked for companies like Psygnosis, Blue Byte, Ikarion, Funatics and Ascaron and was involved in approx. 60 projects as composer and sound designer, the latest one being Sacred 2. In addition, he produced music for short films and advertisement trailers. Matthias is the lecturer for the courses Radio Journalist and Game Sound Design. |
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Goran TschubriloProducer and composer(University of Music and Performing Arts Graz/Austria: Magister artium Composition) Made-to-order works for the opera orchestra KlangImPuls Graz, Festival für Neue Musik Hörfest Graz, Varazdin string quartet etc. Intense engagement in the subject classical/romantic and modern orchestra music, for example the use of instrumentation and orchestration technology in film music. Goran is the lecturer for the course Soundtrack Composer. |
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Jan KretschmerProducer, guitarist, drummer, audio engineer Jan worked as a service engineer for the company Steinberg Media Technologies for several years and therefore knows Cubase and everything Cubase-related like the back of his hand. Jan is the lecturer for the Cubase course. |
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Manuel SchlindweinAudio engineer, drum teacher and lecturer(Audio Engineer SAE, Drummer, VDM) Manuel Schlindwein, convinced analog-advocate, works as an audio engineer at the Supowstudios (Patrice, Curse, Ayo) in Cologne and as an assistant engineer at Russ Elevado (The Roots, Alicia Keys, Erika Badhu, Nikka Costa uva.). He also works at the recording studio Cöllephonia. He started his music career as four-time winner of the German music competition »Jugend musiziert« and gained first experiences in professional studio work at the Kangaroo Studios of legendary producer Edo Zanki. In his spare time, he develops and makes audio hardware. Manuel is the lecturer for the course Audio Engineer. |
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Denis GrundlerAudio Engineer and producer(Audio Engineer SAE) Denis Grundler trained as an audio engineer at the SAE Institute in Frankfurt. After having worked as a sound engineer at Sony BMG in Berlin for four years, he worked at various recording studios in Germany and was a lecturer at the first distance-learning school for home recording. Today, Denis works as a lecturer at Audiocation, specializing in electronic sound generation. Denis teaches the course Denis is the lecturer for the course Audio Engineer. |
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Olaf BeckmannTechnical Director & CEO(Bachelor of Science in Information Technology) As software architect and developer, Olaf is responsible for the conceptual design and the realization of web projects, process optimization, 3D user interfaces and databases.
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