LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ White Noise PR) The
Music Producers Guild announced today that its 2012 Awards will take place on
Thursday February 16th, 2012 at the Cafe de Paris in London.
As in previous years, the MPG Awards will take place just before the BRITS, which is scheduled for February 21st at the O2. Once again the winner of the MPG Producer of the Year category will automatically win a BRIT Award for Best Producer.
The 2012 MPG Awards (www.mpgawards.co.uk) offer even more opportunities to win as a new category has been introduced in the International section (International Engineer of the Year). Nominations for all 16 Awards are now closed and voting will begin shortly.
The full list of awards categories is as follows:
The Joe Meek Legacy Award, sponsored by Joe Meek by PMI Audio
Outstanding Contribution to UK Music, sponsored by PPL
Producer of the Year, sponsored by the BPI
Recording Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Prism Sound
Mix Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Solid
State Logic
Mastering Engineer of the Year, sponsored by SADiE
Live Production of the Year, sponsored by Shure
UK Album of the Year, sponsored by Universal Audio
UK Single of the Year
Re-mixer of the Year, sponsored by Novation
Breakthrough Producer of the Year, sponsored by Deep Recording Studios
Breakthrough Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Genelec
International Producer of the Year, sponsored by British Grove Studios
International Engineer of the Year, sponsored by Focusrite
Studio of the Year
Unsung Hero, sponsored by Alchemea and Pro
Sounds News Europe
The
Music Producers Guild Awards has already made its mark on the music industry calendar as an event not to be missed. Last year's sell out event attracted more than 300 stars and music industry VIPs who turned out in force to celebrate the enormous contribution that recording professionals make to the success of the UK's music industry.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available and any company that would like to be part of this exciting event should contact Sadie Groom at Bubble & Squeak. Telephone: +44 (0) 1442 877850. Email:
[email protected]
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About
Music Producers Guild (UK):
The
Music Producers Guild was conceived and is supported by producers and engineers who are passionate about all aspects of making and recording music. It is a not for profit company and is run by volunteers from the membership. Formed as a Guild rather than a Trade Association, MPG has no party political agenda, but does represent the professional recording community to Government and actively engages with other music industry organisations, to develop a dialogue about and exert an influence on matters of mutual interest and benefit to its members and its industry. The achievements of this creative community are celebrated each year through the MPG Awards event. www.mpg.org.uk
