Murat Çolak

Jury member

• Founder of GERYON
• Recording and mastering engineer
• Producer

Murat Çolak (DMA) is a New York City-based mastering and recording engineer, mixer, producer, and founder of GERYON.

Originally trained as a composer, he works primarily in classical, avant-garde, electroacoustic, and experimental music. His credits include the London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, The Hallé, Distractfold, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Klang, No Hay Banda, lovemusic, Yarn/Wire, Conrad Tao, Marco Fusi, and others, with releases on NEOS, KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, Another Timbre, Da Vinci Classics, Neuma, Innova, and New Focus Recordings.

Çolak teaches composition, production, and music technology at Montclair State University and with the New York Philharmonic. He has held teaching residencies and given talks on music production and composition at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center, Stanford CCRMA, Cornell University’s Department of Music, Harvard University’s Group for New Music, Simon Fraser University, UC Berkeley’s CNMAT, and elsewhere.

Through GERYON, his Manhattan-based studio and engineering practice, he closely collaborates with composers, ensembles, and institutions, working across recording, mixing, mastering, and full-scope production and treating each stage as an integral part of how music is shaped, interpreted, heard, and preserved.