Michael Romanowski Masters "Laurel Zucker" Project for Producer Leslie Ann Jones

San Francisco, CA - December 1, 2011 - Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski recently completed the CD master for award-winning artist Laurel Zucker's new "Journeys" release. The album of Zucker's original flute concertos was produced by Laurel Zucker and long-time Bay Area recording engineer and producer Leslie Ann Jones and recorded at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. Ms. Jones brought the project to Romanowski's San  Francisco mastering studio and listened back on the studio's Focal Grand Utopia speakers making final adjustments for the  master of Zucker's flute performances. Ms. Jones is currently mastering  several projects with Romanowski at his SF studio.

"Michael always manages to sprinkle just the right amount of fairy  dust on my mixes," says Ms. Jones. "His mastering suite is a great place  to make critical decisions when necessary."

Zucker's new album "Journeys" is a collection of her own compositions including movements of flute concertos such as Sphinx, Alexandria and Cairo from the Cairo Flute Concerto, and the California Flute Concerto among many other selections. In 1978 Zucker won the Artists International Competition,  which launched her Carnegie Recital Hall debut. At the age of 16 Zucker  performed 1st flute in the Alexander Schneider Orchestra at in Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center. Over the past decades she has released over 50 highly  regarded albums of classical repertoire, as well as original  compositions and toured the world.

Grammy-winning engineer and producer Leslie Ann Jones has  worked in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years engineering a wide  range of major projects including film scores such as Apocalypse Now, Good Night and Good Luck, jazz albums for Herbie Hancock and Marcus Miller, classical music including the Kronos Quartet and in pop, rock and blues for BB King, Carlos Santana, John Mayall, Michael Feinstein and Rosemary Clooney among many others. Today, as the head of the recording and scoring department at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound, Ms. Jones has added major video game scores, to her credits including  Pirates of the Caribbean, Uncharted, Knights of the Old Republic, and the just released Anniversary edition of Halo,  to name only a select few. Ms. Jones received a Grammy® Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical for Eliesha Nelson's Quincy Porter: The Complete Viola Works.

Visit the Skywalker Sound website for more information on Leslie Ann Jones: http://www.skysound.com/

Michael Romanowski has mastered music in the San Francisco  Bay Area since his move from Nashville in 1994. He recently became  President of the San Francisco chapter of the National Association of  Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and he is currently serving as the Chairman of the SF NARAS chapter's Producers &  Engineers Wing. Romanowski traces his legacy through several generations  of mastering engineers in the Bay Area from George Horn and Phil Brown  to Paul Stubblebine. He has worked with seminal San Francisco artists including Norton Buffalo, Third Eye Blind, Big  Brother and the Holding Company, George Winston, Pat Monahan, Jacqui  Naylor, Spencer Day, Suzanne Ciani, Joe Craven and many other  national and international artists and producers.  Romanowski's mastering room features: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 A/D/A converters,  Focal Grand Utopia EM speakers, ATR 102 1-inch two-track tape deck,  along with a host of other definitive analog and digital audio  equipment.

Contact Michael Romanowski Mastering at (510)-882-8555 or visit: http://www.michaelromanowski.com