Executive Producers

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Sponsorship, philanthropy and guidance from underwriters have always been critical to the success of music and the performing arts, from the ancient Mediterranean world, and from ancient India and China through today. The choragoi, wealthy citizens of Athens, helped produce and pay for classical performances in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.  Before them, the pharaohs sponsored the arts in ancient Egypt.  Lorenzo de Medici and his Renaissance family were not the first patrons of the arts and they will not be the last. As long as art and music flourish, it will be visionary people who finance it and make it possible.

Along with our musicians, our valiant executive producers deserve our sincere thanks and appreciation. These producers sponsor and make our music possible. They are our fairy godmothers and fairy godfathers, our modern Medicis, who work with us and support our musicians every year. Some of our executive producers sponsor recordings themselves. Others coordinate groups of people who underwrite albums, and some facilitate corporate sponsorship.

Please join our executive producers and make a recording with us. Jeff Wilson discusses our goals in The Absolute Sound.

Randy Bellous

Yuko Mabuchi Plays Miles Davis CD

With additional support from Toyota Motor North America

Yuko Mabuchi Trio CD

Yuko Mabuchi Trio CD

Winner of the 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018

Nigel Armstrong CD

Nigel Armstrong CD
Men of Dharmasala CD Men of Dharmasala CD Simpler Times, Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet CD Simpler Times, Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet CD

Jim Mulally

Jung-A Lee: A Private Organ Recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall CD Jung-A Lee: A Private Organ Recital in Walt Disney Concert Hall CD

Elliot Midwood

Jung-A Lee: Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ DSD Te Amo Argentina, Antonio Lysy Vinyl Winner of a GRAMMY Award! Ciaramella Dances on Movable Ground Vinyl Janaki String Trio Debut Vinyl Janaki String Trio Debut Vinyl James Matheson String Quartet, Color Field Quartet Vinyl James Matheson String Quartet, Color Field Quartet Vinyl

Elliot Midwood in collaboration with PS Audio

Simpler Times, Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet Volume II DSD Simpler Times, Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet Volume II DSD Dialoghi DSD Dialoghi DSD Janaki Trio DSD Janaki Trio DSD Smoke &Mirrors DSD Smoke &Mirrors DSD

Craig and Diane Martin

Yuko Mabuchi Trio on Vinyl Volume I & Volume II
Yuko Mabuchi Trio Vinyl

Winner of the 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018

George Klissarov, exaSound

Ciaramella Dances on Movable Ground DSD
Smoke & Mirrors, Vanish DSD Mahler Symphony No 5 DSD Sophisticated Lady Volume I DSD Suryodaya DSD

Aaron Egigian

Sibelius Piano Trio Vinyl Coming 2019

Gary Koh, Genesis Advanced Technologies

Smoke & Mirrors: Vanish Volume II DSD
Nigel Armstrong DSD
Frederic Rosselet DSD
Yarlung Records 10th Anniversary DSD

Ann Mulally

Sibelius Piano Trio CD

Nominated for a GRAMMY and International Classical Music Award! Yarlung Records 10th Anniversary Double CD

Art of the Sonata, Petteri Iivonen & Kevin Fitz-Gerald CD

Carlos & Haydee Mollura

South America CD

Arian Jansen, SonoruS Audio

Arian has underwritten the entire SonoruS Series of analog tapes from Yarlung Records, Twenty Eight Reels in total through November 2018
Ciaramella Dances on Movable Ground CD

Jun Honda, International Rectifier

Antonio Lysy at the Broad: Music from Argentina DSD
Winner of a GRAMMY Award!
If you Love for Beauty Volume II, Sasha Cooke and the Colburn Orchestra DSD
Simpler Times, Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet Volume I DSD Art of the Sonata Volume I DSD

Leslie Bigos

Nostos Tes Mousikes, Robert Istad and The University Singers CD Winner of the 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018

Sandy Pressman, Executive Producer

Smoke and Mirrors: Vanish CD

Claude Cellier, Merging Technologies

Yuko Mabuchi Trio DSD Winner of the 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018 South America DSD If You Love for Beauty Volume I Sasha Cooke and The Colburn Orchestra DSD Te Amo Argentina, Antonio Lysy DSD Winner of a GRAMMY Award! Petteri Iivonen, Art of the violin Volume I DSD Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet Volume II DSD Merging Technologies NADAC Sampler Album DSD Nostos Tes Mousikes: Robert Istad and The University Singers DSD Winner of the 15th Annual Positive Feedback Writers’ Choice Awards for 2018

David & Margie Barry

Obsidian: Mika Sasaki Plays Clara Schumann CD Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble Vanish Vinyl

J and Helen Schlichting

James Matheson: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Baird Dodge, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Color Field Quartet CD

Philip O’Hanlon, On a Higher Note

Sibelius Piano Trio Volume I and Volume II DSD Nominated for a GRAMMY and International Classical Music Award! James Matheson DSD

John Pruit

Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet CD

Bill and Ann Harmsen

Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet Volume 1 Vinyl Sophisticated Lady jazz quartet (vinyl April, 2015)

Ken Salkin

Misha With additional support from Salesforce.com

Doug Weaver

James Matheson: Times Alone Vinyl

Dr. Art Womack

Art of the Violin, Petteri Iivonen & Kevin Fitz-Gerald Vinyl

Sally Swab Austin and Bradford L. Austin

James Matheson Violin Concerto Vinyl