Tony Rudner

Tony has been in the business for more than 30 years as an artist, session guitarist, producer, songwriter, recording engineer, record label executive and music publisher. Tony has produced 37 albums, created music for 16 feature films, 8 television series and hundreds of ads for radio and television. Tony was also an EMI recording artist, and a staff-songwriter for BMG. He currently produces records with top session musicians and songwriters in North America.

Sam Ryan

Sam Ryan has produced and engineered along side some of the music industry's most accomplished heavyweights including Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden) and Brian Newcombe (Jessica Simpson, Celine Dion).

Sam began his music career co-founding SOS Music, a Vancouver based music production company. Producing and engineering numerous CD and multimedia projects, Sam works with the newest technologies in digital audio, midi and sample based sequencing, combing his technical and artistic talents to fuse audio engineering with music production.

Kerry Galloway

Kerry Galloway, bassist/producer/educator, has performed and recorded with a long list of industry legends, including kd lang and Randy Bachman. He has opened for Neil Young, Sarah McLachlan and Sheryl Crowe as well as having appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and variety performances with Bob Hope. Other accolades include recording with hiphop stars "Sweatshop Union" and playing with the Paris-based New Noakes Quartet on their 14 European tours, where he featured as a soloist.

Mike Rogerson

Mike Rogerson is the certified ProTools and Audio Engineering instructor at the Harbourside Institute of Technology. He is one of the only 2 Pro Tools experts in Canada. Mike's discography and live recording credits include: Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crowe, Gloria Estefan, Everclear, Paul Stanley, Joe Walsh, Minnie Driver, Shelby Lynne and Canada’s super group, Chilliwack . His engineering talents on the "Chris Issak Show" helped the series garner 2 Leo awards for best sound.

Mike continues to work as a professional audio engineer/mixer/producer and repeat seasonal audio tech for the Banff Television Festival and Theatre Under the Stars.

Ken Cade

Ken Cade is a graduate of both the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the DePaul University of Chicago. After years of performing with the Chicago Civic Orchestra he decided to pursue a career in the audio aspect of the film business. He started his own company (Sound Bytes) in Toronto which specialized in sound design and music composition.Sound Bytes which later became, Edible Audio(Vancouver) is a highly successful company which works on major feature films and television series. Ken has won numerous Bessie awards for his commercial compositions and has worked on TV series, to name a few, such as: The Outer Limits, Poltergeist, Star Gate, Highlander and presently The 4400. He has been both a nominee and winner of Gemini, Golden Reel and Leo Awards. In 2008 Ken garnered an Emmy Nomination for his work on "Tin Man", in the category of "outstanding sound mixing for a mini-series or a movie".

Brian Watson

Brian Watson is an industry veteran with over 20 years of hands-on experience in the business we call music. For the past 10 years he has been busy running the award winning artist management, label and music services company, Maximum Music Group. As the former marketing manager for Virgin Records, Brian had the honour of managing the promotional and marketing campaigns for superstar acts such as: The Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson and The Smashing Pumpkins. In addition, he spent some time working for SL Feldman & Associates as a national booking agent, where the acts he worked with included Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams and The Tragically Hip.

With over 100 albums to its credit Maximum's roster has been recognized with 6 Juno Awards, 9 National Jazz Awards , 6 Western Canadian Music Awards, 5 Canadian "Indie" Music Awards and 3 Canadian Urban Music Awards.

Allan Levy

Allan Levy has worked successfully for over 15 years in the fields of sound design, music composition, mixing, engineering, environmental recording, sound effects creation and audio implementation for video games.

He is a graduate of both the Vancouver Film School's sound design program and UBC's multimedia program.

Allan was fortunate to spend some time working alongside Oscar winning, legendary sound designer, Bob Grieves, from whom he picked up many priceless tricks of the trade. Currently residing in Vancouver, Allan's skills and reputation have taken him to Los Angeles and New York City for both music and sound design. He now divides his time between his professional audio career and his teaching post at the Harbourside Institute of Technology, where he shares his vast pool of knowledge and practical experience with his students.

Ron Irving

Ron Irving is a veteran Canadian Songwriter with over 100 songs recorded worldwide, in six languages. Ron’s songs have been recorded by Anne Murray, Michael Bublé, Lee Greenwood, The Statler Brothers, Asian superstar Jacky Cheung, South African Idol Anke, Germany's Pop band "Trademark", Lisa Brokop, Amanda Stott, Karen Lee Batten and numerous others. His “Holdin’ Out For A Hero” recorded by Danish artist, Wenche, brought Ron home a Gold record! Many of his songs have been used in feature films, TV series, song folios, TV Commercials, karaoke and ring tones.