AES Show 2024 NY

Women's Audio Mission presents a panel discussion featuring award-winning audio engineers reflecting on their career journeys and how they built successful careers. The discussion will include everything from essential skills to building your network. The panelists are award-winning recording engineers that have worked with artist such as Beyonce, Patti Smith, Lana Del Ray, Solange, Sheryl Crow and Kacey Musgraves in major Los Angeles, New York and Nashville studios and beyond.

Panelists include:

Gloria Kaba - Gloria Kaba is a Ghanaian-American sound engineer, producer, mixer and writer based in New York. She began her career as an intern at Battery Studios and later as an assistant engineer at MSR Studios where she worked with artists including Madonna, Beyonce, Kanye West, Salaam Remi, Aretha Franklin and Frank Ocean. She’s worked on A Tribe Called Quest’s final album We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service and Solange’s breakthrough release, A Seat At The Table, working closely with legendary hip-hop artist and producer Q-tip. Kaba was inducted into YouTube’s Black Voices Class of 2022; a fund championing 21 outstanding Black producers and songwriters.

Leslie Richter - Leslie Richter is a Nashville based producer and recording engineer and Chair of the Audio Engineering Program at Belmont University. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, she began her career as a staff engineer at the acclaimed Oceanway Studios in Nashville and worked with a wide array of artists including Sheryl Crow, Kacey Musgraves, Spoon, Sara Bareilles, Wynonna, John Hiatt and Ben Folds.

Vira Byramji - Vira Byramji is an audio engineer specializing in studio recording and mixing. Vira’s entrance into the industry was through the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York, where she was the assistant manager and a staff engineer. There she worked with major labels and high profile clients such as Patti Smith, U2, Lana Del Rey, Sara Bareilles and HBO to name a few. She is also works in A&R at Epidemic Sound.

Moderated by Terri Winston, Executive Director of Women's Audio Mission. Women's Audio Mission (WAM) is dedicated to closing the chronic gender gap in the music, recording and technology industries. Less than 5% of the people creating and shaping the sounds that make up the soundtrack of our lives are women and gender-expansive people. WAM is “changing the face of sound” by providing training, mentoring and career advancement that inspires the next generation of women and gender-expansive music producers, recording engineers and audio technologists and radically changes the narrative in these industries.