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Learn advanced recording skills with Grammy award winning sound engineer, Leslie Ann Jones! Leslie will share a wealth of experience in her demonstration of microphone techniques for recording vocal performance. Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity!

Leslie has been a recording and mixing engineer for over 30 years. Starting her career at ABC Recording Studios in Los Angeles in 1975, she moved to Northern California in 1978 to accept a staff position with David Rubinson and Fred Catero at the legendary Automatt Recording Studios. There she worked with such artists as Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Holly Near, Angela Bofill, and Narada Michael Walden, and started her film score mixing career with "Apocalypse Now".

From 1987 to 1997 she was a staff engineer at Capitol Studios located in the historic Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood. She recorded projects with Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Michelle Shocked, BeBe & CeCe Winans, and Marcus Miller, as well as the scores for several feature films and television shows.

In February of 1997 she returned to Northern California to accept a position as Director of Music Recording and Scoring with Skywalker Sound, where she continues her engineering and producing career mixing music for records, films, television, and video games. In 2003, Leslie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical, and received a Grammy Award for The Kronos Quartet's recording of Berg: Lyric Suite, which won Best Chamber Music Album and another for Dianne Reeves' "Good Night and Good Luck" which won for Best Jazz Vocal Album. In 2011 she won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical for Quincy Porter: Complete Viola Works by Eliesha Nelson & John McLaughlin Williams.

Leslie is a past Chair of The Recording Academy's Board of Trustees. She also serves on the Boards of Institute for Musical Arts, Music in Schools Today, and the Recording Arts Advisory Board for Ex'pression College for Digital Arts.

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