Michael Bishop

Grammy® & Surround Music Award-Winning Recording Engineer & Producer

photo: Wes Bender

“…like being chauffeured in a Rolls Royce through a paradise of sound.”  Telarc Jazz Artist, Ann Hampton Callaway

Michael Bishop has been engineering award-winning recordings for more than 25 years, including SIX Grammy® Awards (2006, 2004, 2002 and 1997) for Best-Engineered Classical Recording.  He has received the award for Best Surround Mix – Orchestral and numerous nominations in the Surround Music Awards over the past several years.  As part of the engineering and production team at Telarc Records, Michael has recorded many major orchestral, jazz, blues, and pop recordings, plus notable independent projects.  Additionally, Michael’s production and sound effects recordings helped Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach) earn a record-setting four consecutive Best Comedy Grammy® Awards.  Michael has also earned a biographical listing in the Marquis Publications Who’s Who in Entertainment and Who’s Who in Music.

Among the very first music recording engineers to embrace multi-channel Surround as a music release format on DTS-encoded CDs, Michael is currently recording in multi-channel Direct Stream Digital for release on Super Audio CD and the DVD-Audio format.  Having worked on pop quadraphonic mixes in the early 1970s, Michael has applied that early experience, combined with his always-evolving surround techniques, to produce notable 6.0 surround releases to the acclaim of audio reviewers and audiophile publications.

Michael's many recording credits include: The James Gang, Wild Cherry, Pere Ubu, Dizzy Gillespie, Manhattan Transfer, Ray Brown, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Williams, Ray Charles, Chucho Valdez, Monty Alexander, the Count Basie Orchestra, Hiromi Uehara, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Bonnie Raitt, Isaac Hayes, the Memphis Horns, Bobby Womack, Liza Minnelli, Clark Terry, Lou Rawls, James Moody, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Short, Junior Wells, Carlos Santana, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Dee-Dee Bridgewater, Dianna Krall, Shirley Horn, Maria Muldaur, Mel Torme, Ernest Ranglin,  Andre Watt, Sylvia McNair, Robert Shaw/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Lang Lang, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Paavo Jarvi/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Robert Spano/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Michael has published articles in Surround Professional, The Absolute Sound, and Audio Media magazines as well as being a contributor to several books on surround microphone and recording techniques.  Michael is often the subject of trade magazine articles covering subjects as diverse as orchestral recording to high-resolution surround and has been a consultant to pro-audio manufacturers.

Michael is a member of AES, MPGA, NARAS, ASCAP, AQHA, and NRHA.  He and his wife enjoy participating in Team Penning & Sorting and Reining with their American Quarter Horses.  

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