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Earl "Churchie" York Biography
After graduating from Johnson & Wales University with a degree in Business Administration, Earl York continued his formal education at the Recording Workshop in Chillicoti, Ohio where he obtained a degree in Audio Engineering. With his sight keenly set on the engineering industry, he returned to his hometown St. Maarten there he started as an Assistant Engineer at Broneese Recording Studio and quickly worked his way up to Chief Engineer where he was responsible for scheduling, maintenance and overseeing all final mixes.
After years on the studio scene his never ending quest to learn and explore the full spectrum of the audio engineering field led him to pursue his true passion and embarked on experiencing the excitement of live sound.
This was where he framed his mind to commence his own live sound company. Seeing the need to provide high quality yet affordable audio services by competent, professional, and friendly engineers, and therefore opened the well-known sound reinforcement company “Sound 2000”. Sound 2000 grew quickly from only providing audio to a full-fledged live production company supplying staging and lighting also. A true turn-key company!
Earl York affectionately known as “Churchie”, has worked and toured with International, Regional and Local artists, musicians, producers and sound engineers. His dominance in sound engineering is recognized by many such as Wycleff Jean, and Jimmy Buffet, Gramps Morgan, Onyan and the Burning Flames just to name a few. He is also recognized for upgrading Sound Reinforcement for St. Maarten Carnival Festivities, St. Maarten Heineken Regatta, Anguilla Tranquility Jazz Festival, St. Barths SBJAM Festival and the list continues.
His corporate, government and regional clients span the entire Caribbean with events such as:
- Anguilla Carnival and Annual August Monday beach Party( 1998 – 2007)
- Nevis Culturama ( 1999 – 2004)
- St.Maarten Carnival (1998 – present)
- St.Maarten Heineken Regatta ( 1998 – present)
- SBJAM Festival St.Barthelemy ( 2001 – present)
- Anguilla Tranquility jazz Festival ( 2007 – 2010)
Many within the audio engineering industry regard Churchie as one of the most sought after live audio engineers regionally. He has the ability to utilize his strengths of using his ears, his passion for live sound and his musical back ground to mix all genres of music and his calm and smooth demeanor to interact with musicians while mixing.
He is driven by his passion for quality sound.
Earl York's engineering career has spanned some 24 years and he continues to make strides to be better by staying abreast with the industry and upgrading his skills and equipment as necessary. He is a member of NAMM and AES.
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