Craig Burross returns to HES
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HES chairman and founder Lowell Fowler says: "Most of the industry knows Craig and the recently-returned
HES chairman and founder Lowell Fowler says: "Most of the industry knows Craig and the recently-returned
Before joining Celestion, Wood served as technical and marketing manager at Icore International, a market-leading specialist engineering company, offering aerospace and industrial technical products to major OEMs. Here he was responsible for corporate engineering activities as well as being accountable for one of three internal industrial business units. Prior to this, Wood had built his career as a senior manager at two global engineering organisations, with an impressive track record introducing creative solutions to maximise efficiency and incr
Adam Pope, who has worked in a technical capacity for FX for almost six years, has been promoted to technical manager. Pope previously worked as an audio engineer in Prague, prior to that spending six years in Soundcraft's R&D department. He will be responsible for the day to day running of the technical and check-in department, liaising with suppliers' and clients' own technical staff and working with clients on special projects which involve FX in both an advisory and rentals role. Pope will also continue to offer technical support on equipment, s
Phillips was famed for his unfussy and uncluttered lighting techniques, believing that if lighting was noticed it was essentially bad lighting. During his time at the Royal Court he was given free reign to experiment with lighting, which ultimately resulted in the famous 'white light' technique where, if colour was used at all it tended to be colour correction reducing the orange cast of tungsten sources. This method aimed to retain the natural skin tone of an actors face and ensure total visual clarity of facial expression. During this period many of the Court's set designers were also dispensing with the artifice of theatre, often removing masking and leaving stage and lighting exposed. John Dexter, speaking of Phi
Anthony, now an Edinburgh based lighting designer, has attended the festival as a member of the technical crew since 1999. He was then at school in Scarborough; his home town and home of the Festival for 16 years now. Aged 21 Anthony is one of the youngest technical directors to date and comes to the position fresh from graduating from Queen Margaret's University College, Edinburgh.
Katharine has stepped down from the role she has held for over three years in order to further develop her career as a freelance lighting designer. From her base in London, Katharine has worked throughout the UK
As LOUD Technologies' EAW Commercial sales manager for the EMEA region, Bob Harrison will act as the primary contact for all EAW Commercial distributors throughout Europe and will therefore be responsible for spearheading EAW Commercial sales throughout the EMEA region.
Bob Harrison has more than 20 years of experience in the professional audio industry including a total of 17 years with Beyerdynamic UK, the distribution company of the German microphone and headphone manufacturer. The fir
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From 1997 to 1999 Castor served as president and CEO of Precision Industrial Corporation of Montvale, New Jersey - a $200 million manufacturer of capital equipment for the metal processing industry, prior to which he was president and CEO of Hayward Industries of Elizabeth, New Jersey - one of the world's largest
Ridout is equally thrilled to join tsg, and commented: "for a long time I have respected the entertainment environments that tsg provide for its many customers, and when I heard that there was an opening at tsg, I made sure that Paul Kemp knew I was interested". The move coincided with tsg securing the media supply and installation contract across 500 stores of the female fashion giant New Look, an account that was previously
Pixel Range sales continue to be handled by Andy Walters and Ashley Lewis, and truss and lighting sales by Chris Waller and Tina Hall. John Hickinbotham should be contacted at the e-mail address given below with communications that would have previously channelled through Mervyn Thomas, say the company.
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Jig returns to the company after three years working in IT, previous to which he worked at JTE for 20 years. He will be working alongside the sales and product development teams for both Pixel Range, and JTE's core trussing, metalwork and lighting fixture business. His focus will be on ensuring that JTE stays at the forefront of technical innovation - an element that's helped keep the company a market leader in the production industry for over 25 years.
Jig commented: "It's really great to be back. It's hugely exciting to be part of a lively and energetic team, all working together in creating a new, revitalized and highly effic
Julian Pieters joins Ampetronic from Cambridge Consultants, one of the foremost consultancies delivering turnkey product and technology development programmes. His management experience there, plus an INSEAD MBA, makes him ideally suited for his new role. Hollands, meanwhile, has a strong technical background and extensive international sales and marketing experience within the advanced technology and communications industries, working for companies such as Marconi and JDS Uniphase. During his career, he has successfully de
McMillin is a hugely experienced sound engineer with over 30 years of top flight experience under his belt. He has toured the world many times over with major rock acts such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Dio, Whitesnake, Souxsie and The Banshees and Suzanne Vega. "The last nine years have been spent touring worldwide with Deep Purple," explains Moray. "That was a wonderful experience as innovation and quality of sound is very important to the band. Consequently, I was given the opportunity
Cox has joined LBI having worked for a rental company as a lighting technician, specialising in automated lights. Before that she worked as the stage manager for the Comedy Store in London. She has a wide range of experience from running - and even performing in - cabaret shows to editing videos.
She now works for LBI as the Technical Administrator, administrating and co-ordinating installations, and various other projects, from conception to completion. LBI founder and director Roland Hemming says: "Sarah's wide ranging experience of both the creative and technical sides of the entertainment business make her ideally suited to this busy role and it's great to have her on board."
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Claiborne is now actively expanding her coverage of product support seminars to include various lighting control systems and digital media products throughout the lightin
As engineering graduate (Dipl.-Ing) for theatre and event technology, Fiedler worked for the Nationaltheater Mannheim, before joining Stella AG as stage and lighting director. Since November 1999 he has worked for the Despar Licht- und Bühnentechnik GmbH, where he was responsible for the planning as well as realization of special projects.
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Mikhail has extensive experience in the field of fire engineering from his role with SEM, the leading Russian Fire Engineering and VESDA reseller. Prior to his time with SEM, Mikhail was a teacher at the State Service Technical School and holds a Masters Degree from the Academy of State Fire Servi
Wilkins originally trained in stage management at the Guildford School of Acting, after which he worked for a number of hire companies rigging lighting and staging equipment. It was the lighting side of the business that caught his imagination and he joined Strand Lighting, where he stayed for seven years, doing a variety of jobs including estimator, project manager and mobile sales engineer. A variety of other jobs primarily in the lighting industry gave him the broad experience that he now bring
Wood first worked with Jones at PCM, which he joined aged 18. He left four years later to work as assistant engineer with industrial lifting and rigging specialist Cosalt, continuing his career in the lifting business. Wood comments: "It's going to be a great challenge working with LTM - a brand new company with a brand new attitude and lots of drive and enthusiasm. I am looking forward to helping make the company a great success."
John Jones says: "Our business
"We are thrilled that Eric chose Clay Paky America as his new home," said P.J. Turpin, CEO of Clay Paky America. "He makes a great addition to the team, which now includes a fantastic technical support manager in Giovanni Zucchinali and an almost seamless interface with the factory thanks to the excellent support of Francesco Romagnoli, the area manager for North
Hamilton Smith has a broad experience of the recording industry both in music recording and audio post-production. His career started at Olympic Studios in Barnes under the stewardship of Keith Grant where he was involved in recording every conceivable kind of music. A five-year spell as a freelance engineer/producer preceded joining Complete Video as head of sound where he stayed for 12 years, becoming a director, before leaving to open his own facility, China Blue, which has recently launched a new 5.1 Surround Room.
In a statement to mark his election DHS said: "I am genuinely touched and honoured to have been invited to be the new chairman
An admitted theatre addict, Bolen says she is excited about learning more about the technology of Wybron's stage lighting products and hopes to contribute in all aspects of promoting them.
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