About the Author

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Richard King was born in the UK and grew up on the east coast of Canada. He completed his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and his Masters of Music in Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal. After two seasons at the Tanglewood Music Center (summer home of the Boston Symphony), he was hired by Sony Classical Productions in New York, and in less than a year he was assigned to record the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Over the next 15 years, based at Sony Music Studios in New York City, he had the great fortune ...

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