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Women wanted: Abbey Road Studios tackle industry imbalance

Fri, 05th Mar 2021 17:56

By Hanna Rantala

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Abbey Road Studios is opening
its doors to women, hoping to inspire future generations of
female artists, producers and engineers with a week-long
festival of workshops.

The famed London recording studios launched its "Equalise"
programme on International Women's Day 2020. This year's edition
is online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with participants
offered classes on technical know-how, interactions with other
music makers and guidance from industry leaders virtually.

"Five percent of music producers and engineers are women,
which is abominably low," Abbey Road Studios' managing director,
Isabel Garvey, told Reuters in the venue's Studio Three, where
Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" and Amy Winehouse's
final tracks were recorded.

"This programme that we're running is shining a light on all
of those characters behind the scenes and helping young women
understand the opportunities."

The programme, which opened on March 1 and runs through
International Women's Day on March 8, features live
masterclasses with leading female music industry figures and
panel discussions with rising talent.

"It's really important to have women doing production so
younger women can aspire to be and see that you can achieve and
do well in this side of the industry," said Melle Brown, a music
producer, DJ and radio host from London.

Garvey, 45, has been at the helm of the world's oldest
recording studio since 2014. Following what she describes as a
"deep, dark history in finance", she carved herself a career in
music, rising to senior roles at major music labels.

"My entry into the music industry was quite serendipitous in
that it was quite a random start in the industry," she said.

"I joined ... when digital was 1 or 2% of the business ...
Today we are over 65% digital ... Living that transition was
very interesting. It kind of created new roles with no
preconception of who needed to be in those roles."

The "Equalise" programme also features one-to-one mentoring
sessions.

"It never happened to me in my career to have a team of just
females in the room: artists, producer, musician, songwriter,"
Marta Di Nozzi, a senior runner at Abbey Road Studios, said of
one festival session on making new music.

"It felt awesome and it's for sure something I would love to
do again."
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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