Biography

Bill Levey has been involved in music production for almost 30 years.  Beginning at the legendary “underground” FM radio station in Los Angeles, KMET-FM, Bill was on the engineering staff for many of KMET’s historic live concert broadcasts.  These days Bill is an in-demand music editor and recording engineer in the Seattle area working with many of that area’s classical music ensembles, vocal groups and soloists. 

Bill has been involved with over 50 commercial CD releases as a music editor, recording engineer, mastering engineer or a combination of all 3.  He continues to be involved in radio production as well having recently won a “Soundie” award from the Puget Sound Radio Broadcasters for audio work on behalf of KING-FM, Seattle’s classical music station. Bill has assembled 2 volumes of KING-FM’s compilations of local music groups as well as a recent CD for Seattle Opera, “The Magic Flute, A Hero’s Quest”.

Earlier in his career, Bill was the Producer for a Billboard Magazine award winning series “The History of FM Radio”.  He worked for several years at Westwood One Radio in Los Angeles as production engineer on many live broadcasts, including Amnesty International’s series of concerts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Bill continues to work with Loft Recording and Gothic Records in Seattle as music editor and mastering engineer for many of that company’s choral and pipe organ CD projects.

Bill’s current projects include upcoming CD releases with Seattle Pro Musica, Cappella Romana, The American String Project and Seattle Opera.

Fanfare magazine said this about one of Bill’s recording projects with The Northwest Symphony Orchestra (ALBANY TROY 184): “...admirable recording...with strong bass, no excess resonance, natural string timbres and a fine balance through out the spectrum…a first class production all around.”

Bill Levey is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.