Katherine Drumm phone: 212.992.8401 194 Mercer Street, 501
DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATOR
M.A. New York University
B.A. University of Virginia
Brianne Powell phone: 212.992.8408 194 Mercer Street, 5th Floor
ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE
M.A. New York University
B.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
Brianne Powell has been with the department since 2005 after having moved to New York City from Richmond, Virginia. She received her Masters degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University in the Summer of 2008. In Fall 2009 she will begin a new Master's program in Educational Theatre and hopes to open her own theatre company one day. Though she may play the piano and sing, her only musical "claim to fame" is having taught high school drama for four years and having to direct musical theatre...and must we mention her confessed infatuation with Def Leppard?
Michael McCoy phone: 212.992.7452 194 Mercer Street, 514
PRODUCTION MANAGER
B.M. Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania
After graduating from Lebanon Valley College in 1996, Michael McCoy moved to New York City to take a job at renowned recording studio, The Hit Factory. At the start of his nine-year tenure there, he worked as an assistant engineer, honing his skills on projects in musical genres ranging from pop and rock to hip-hop and R&B, and from classical and jazz to Broadway cast albums and film scores. Michael was named chief engineer at The Hit Factory in 2001, a position he held until the studio closed in February of 2005. He got his break as an independent recording engineer in 1998 by working for artists and producers like Missy Elliot, Wyclef Jean, and Queen Latifah. Since then, his discography has expanded to include gold and platinum-selling pop acts such as Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill, Beyoncé Knowles, The Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay. His engineering talents have also been called upon for projects with musical legends like Carole King, Chaka Kahn, and Tom Jones; jazz greats Tom Harrell, Dave Douglas, and Bill Connors, and for two film scores by Philip Glass.
Noah Simon phone: 212.992.8402 194 Mercer Street, 513
RECORDED MUSIC TECHNICIAN
M.M. New York University
B.M. Temple University
Noah Simon began working in New York City recording studios while pursuing his Master's degree at NYU. Since this time he has engineered for such artists at Shawn Colvin, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Andersen, and Bill Frisell, whose resultant album was awarded a Grammy. As head engineer for Jarvis Studios, he maintained and oversaw rooms used by U2, Los Lobos, Angelique Kidjo, and Teo Macero. Noah studied sound recording at McGill University, and worked as an "audio assistant" at the Banff Centre.
Jon Sheldrick phone: 212.992.7527 194 Mercer Street, 5th Floor
RECORDED MUSIC TECHNICIAN, P/T
B.M. New York University
Jon Sheldrick, an obsessor of all things sound, is a composer, sound designer, and all-round audio tech nerd. A graduate of New York University's Music Technology program, Jon is now one of two Recorded Music Technicians maintaining order on the 5th floor of 194 Mercer. When not rummaging through the studios of the Clive Davis Department, Jon works as a post production engineer at G&E Music, a boutique post house on 23rd St. At G&E, Jon spends his days mixing, sound designing, and recording Voice Overs for film and television. In the off-hours, he produces independent musicians, engineers recording sessions, and composes and records his own brand of original experimental electronic music, due to be released by Ropeadope Records in February 2009 under the pseudonym "Fatty Acid". When not knee-deep in noise, the award-winning opera singer enjoys frequenting dimly-lit dive bars, watching British soccer, and weather permitting, sporting a mustache.
Caitlin Oliver-Gans phone: 212.992.7528 194 Mercer Street, 5th Floor
RECORDED MUSIC TECHNICIAN, P/T
M.A. Candidate, CUNY-Hunter College
A.S. Herzing College
Caitlin Oliver-Gans has been fulfilling her destiny as a musician and sound / electronics engineer since a very young age; she was always found head-banging, playing air-guitar, beating on make-shift drums, blowing up speakers and taking apart everything she could get her hands on. She studied Music and Technical Theater at The San Francisco School of the Arts, obtained a degree in Electronics Engineering from Herzing College in Madison, WI and has toured the world as a musician. Before moving to New York in 2007, Caitlin was working as a music analyst (Pandora.com), a sound engineer (Pro Media / Ultrasound) and a sound system installer / technician (Cyber Logic Corp).
