As a saxophonist, clarinetist, and  audio engineer with an Associate of Arts in Recording Technology and Music Production, Brian Thompson  has been  literally been setting himself up for a career in the audio arts and production field for many years.  He can fondly remember listening to "Classics by Request" on a local Public Radio station in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday mornings as a child, and building a mock "radio station" in his bedroom at home, complete with working PA equipment.  As time went on, Brian was instructed in clarinet through grade and high school, majoring in music education for a year in college. He picked up the  tenor saxophone in high school and doubles on bari, tenor, and alto.  He completed his degree at Madison Media Institute in Febuary of 2008.

Brian has played in a variety of ensembles throughout his short but invigorating musical career, including jazz ensembles, Motown groups, choral and sacred ensembles, wind ensembles, and a local community band. It was his involvement in his senior year of high school in the prestigious Wisconisin Youth Symphony Orchestra, however, that led him to ponder a career in the acoustic recording arts. 

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Brian firmly believes it takes a musician's ear and a performer's viewpoint to understand the planning, recording, mixing, and live sound design process. He has recorded the small jazz duos, large 70-piece choral ensembles, and medium size chamber groups, as well as rock bands, mixed live musicals, done sound design for theatre and worked on radio commercials as well. With a firm grounding in musicianship, the arts, and theatre, Brian continues to exceed in bringing high quality results to his latest position, an internship with Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, FL, as a sound intern for a 3-theatre, contemporary LORT-D complex in the heart of downtown, bustling, arts-based Sarasota, Florida.