› Gary Gottlieb

Position
Assistant Professor

Department
Electronic and Photographic Media

Home Campus
St. Louis (Webster Gvoves)

Courses taught
Audio Production I; Advanced Audio Mixing; Jingles; Music Recording; Audio, Media and Society; Professional Development; Recording Studio Management and Operations; Intro to Media Production; and Freshman Seminars

Education
M.A. in Audio Aesthetics and Technology, Marlboro College; B.A., Temple University, School of Communications and Theater

Professional Experience
Freelance engineer and producer for 25 years in New York; Marlboro College, adjunct faculty; Plymouth State College, adjunct faculty; Castleton State College, adjunct faculty; University of Massachusetts, Lowell, adjunct faculty; Center for Media Arts in New York

Teaching Philosophy
It's all about the students. This is the foundation of my personal teaching philosophy. I am fortunate enough, as a 25 year professional in the music business, to recognize that music is a service industry. We serve producers, record companies and, ultimately, consumers. Similarly, teaching is a service industry and I serve my students. Another advantage to being an industry professional is that I treat everyone as a professional, including my students. It means I am more demanding since, as professionals, I expect my students to be prompt and ready to work, but it also means that students who earn my respect have it for life, as the professionals they intend be.

About
Gary Gottlieb considers himself a music generalist. He became a professional musician at 13, has worked in the radio industry off and on for 30 years and served as a music critic for nine.

Gottlieb's credits as a recording engineer and music producer in New York include James Taylor, Grand Master Flash, Gwen Guthrie, Marc Cohn, Stanley Clark, Patti Austin and more. Credits as a sound designer include numerous off-off-Broadway productions, community theatre productions throughout New England and college productions at Marlboro and Plymouth State colleges.

He worked as a music critic and entertainment writer for the Deerfield Valley News in West Dover, Vt., and disc jockey for WEQX-FM in Manchester, Vt. Gottlieb also owned and operated a mobile DJ service.

Occasionally, Gottlieb works for ESPN as a venue director for the X Games, Winter X and the Great Outdoors Games. He is an avid snowboarder and former member of Mount Snow's ski patrol.

Gottlieb serves as faculty advisor for Webster's award-winning student section of the Audio Engineering Society. He continues to do occasional audio sessions, writes when it suits him, snowboards, water skis and mountain bikes as often as possible.

Gottlieb resides in Webster Groves with his wife Melanie; their two daughters, Miranda and Kyla; and their dog Sadie.

Web site
www.webster.edu/aes/gottlieb

Contact
(314) 246-7962
gsquared@webster.edu

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