MSM Recording Arts offers professional audio and video recording, live streaming, and live sound support services for hundreds of MSM concerts, special events, and student recitals each year.
MSM Recording Arts is part of The Orto Center for Distance Learning and Recording Arts at MSM. It features a digital multitrack and HD broadcast studio facility capable of recording and livestreaming events in the School’s main performance spaces, including orchestra and jazz ensemble concerts, operas, musical theatre performances, master classes, and student and faculty recitals. The Recording Arts team records approximately 1000 events per year in total!
Private recording session bookings are available to MSM students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the general public. Private audio and HD video recording sessions are offered in our recording studio plus many of the concert halls at MSM and are scheduled around other concert and recital recording commitments. For more information, please visit our Private Recording Sessions page.
Studio tours, panel discussions, and workshops on recording and recording-related topics are offered on an ongoing basis to students at MSM.
RECORDING ARTS SERVICES AT A GLANCE:
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Audio Recording
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HD Video Recording
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Livestreaming
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Live Sound Support
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Digital Delivery
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Classroom Audio System Design
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Recording Copy Requests & Media Transfers
Accessing Our Recordings
Manhattan School of Music performances, master classes, and concerts that are recorded each year are available for listening purposes to the MSM community on The Orto Center for Distance Learning and Recording Arts cloud media platform, MSM Mediaspace (current MSM login credentials required). Many performances that are livestreamed can also be accessed on-demand at riw.sys-filter.com/livestream.
MSM Recording Arts maintains the expansive historical audio archive collection of Manhattan School of Music performances recorded since the 1950s. An archival digitization project is currently underway in conjunction with MSM’s Centennial Celebration that will preserve these recordings in a digital format.
Radio Broadcast and Commercial Release
MSM performances recorded by Myers Recording Studio are broadcast regularly on various radio stations, including WQXR and WWFM. MSM’s ongoing partnership with WWFM—The Classical Network—offers the opportunity for select student performances to be broadcast throughout the school year on the station’s program, Celebrating Our Musical Future.
Myers Recording Studio regularly produces recordings for commercial release, including opera and jazz performance recordings released on Albany Records and Jazzheads respectively. In addition, Myers Recording Studio produces a commemorative compilation CD each year featuring the many outstanding performances from MSM student ensembles.
Distance Learning
Recording Arts is part of the Orto Center for Distance Learning and Recording Arts at Manhattan School of Music. In addition to extensive recording services, this department produces interactive educational videoconference programs involving students and faculty members including:
- Masterclasses
- Clinics
- Coaching sessions
- Private lessons
- Educational & community outreach
- Professional development sessions in 46 of the 50 US states and 35 countries with:
- institutions of higher education
- K-12 schools
- community organizations
Recording Arts provides audio support and sound design for all MSM Distance Learning programs
