{"id":18296,"date":"2022-08-01T08:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:39:46","slug":"2022-music-production-masters-graduates-awarded-by-izotope-sweetwater-and-slate-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/2022-music-production-masters-graduates-awarded-by-izotope-sweetwater-and-slate-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Music Production Master\u2019s Grads Awarded by iZotope, Sweetwater, and Slate Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Berklee Online Music Production Grads Honored for Innovation, Diversity, and Engineering Excellence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Six members of Berklee Online\u2019s Music Production master\u2019s<\/a> class of 2022 have more than just their diploma to show for their hard work. Program director Enrique Gonzalez M\u00fcller<\/a> recently presented Kristen Long, Dan Minchom, Rossely Paul, Owen Longjohn, Craig Limey, and Christopher T. Thompson Sr. with awards recognizing their excellence in music production for innovation, multicultural diversity, and engineering. The awards are provided in partnership with iZotope, Sweetwater, and Slate Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInnovation, musical diversity, and excellence in sound engineering are foundational pillars of our Master\u2019s in Music Production program,\u201d says Gonzalez M\u00fcller. \u201cThe other faculty members and I, along with our strongest industry partners iZotope, Sweetwater Sound, and Slate Digital, couldn\u2019t be prouder of the excellent and boundary-expanding achievements of our best and brightest award winners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Long<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Long<\/a>, from Dania Beach, FL, is the winner of the iZotope Award: Honoring Innovation in Music Production. <\/strong>A vocal casting specialist for Royal Caribbean Entertainment with 20 years of experience as a vocal coach, Long\u2019s master\u2019s in Music Production is her second degree from Berklee, along with her bachelor\u2019s in voice performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is such an honor to receive this award and to be recognized for my penchant for experimentation in my quest to paint the most honest and colorful representation of the music,\u201d says Long.
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Originally from Boston, Long describes her style as a songwriter and producer as story-driven and eclectic.
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\u201cEach song has a story to tell, and it is up to me to tell it in the most truthful way possible,\u201d says Long. \u201cWhen writing and producing, the style sets the environment, or scene, so to speak for the rest of the story to unfold upon.\u201d
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Long is applying her love for storytelling to an original animated children\u2019s TV show that she conceived and created, Mandy & the Jam Fam<\/a><\/em>. The show is designed to expose kids to instruments,  musical genres, and the cultures that they arose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWitnessing cast members from all over the world work seamlessly together, with music and dance the only common language between them, has served as inspiration and hope that we are, in fact, capable of seeing beyond cultural differences, remembering that we are all human, and bringing beauty into this world in working together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long says it was a challenge to juggle her job with Royal Caribbean\u2014gigging three times per week in her musical duo The Minx & The Maestro<\/a>\u2014and her Berklee Online work, which included completing her culminating experience EP project.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I am truly proud of is that I was able to liberate myself from artistic constraints,\u201d says Long. \u201cI have always been a creator and storyteller, but had not yet found the medium that most completely allowed for my voice to come through. Music production has proven itself to be that medium, and I am proud to have produced an EP that is more authentically \u2018me\u2019 than anything I\u2019ve done in the past, artistically, and am proud of the quality of the production value.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Katherine Richardson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Minchom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The winner of the iZotope Award: Honoring Innovation in Music Production<\/strong> is Dan Minchom<\/a> from Toronto. He is a bassist currently touring with guitarist Jesse Cook (pictured below) and country artist Jojo Mason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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