Marco Battistella — Recording Producer in Vienna

Background

Born in 1986 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, the son of an orchestral conductor. Cello lessons from the age of four, then training at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg with a focus on music theory, saxophone, church organ, voice, Gregorian chant, choral and operatic singing.

He then moved to Vienna to study harmony, counterpoint and composition in depth. From his practice as a musician grew the work as a Tonmeister: recording production, recording technique and production for classical music as well as jazz and blues. In Vienna there is an ongoing cooperation with the Lorely-Saal; beyond that he works mobile in concert halls and churches at home and abroad.

Musician and Tonmeister

Since 2008 an active member of the Wiener Singverein, with performances at the Wiener Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Salzburg Festival and on tours to Japan, China, Russia, Turkey, France and Luxembourg.

This double role shapes the way he works: someone who stands on stage himself plans sessions by musical rather than technical sequence — and knows when repeating no longer improves anything.

Teaching

Since 2012 Marco Battistella has taught at the ORG1 für Kunst und Musik in Vienna (Hegelgasse) in music, computer science and audio engineering. He is also a lecturer at the SAE Institute Vienna on stereophony, music theory and psychology in the recording room.

Memberships

• Audio Engineering Society (AES) — since 2011.
• Recording Academy (NARAS), Producers & Engineers Wing — since 2015, GRAMMY voting member.
• Verband Deutscher Tonmeister (VDT) — since 2017.
• Österreichischer Tonmeisterverband (ÖTMV) — since 2025.

Awards

ICMA nominations from 2016 to 2024, seven Pizzicato Supersonic Awards (2017–2024), a Fono Forum Star of the Month (II/2018) and Opus Klassik nominations in 2019 and 2020. A complete list with orchestras, conductors and labels is on the References page (German).

Further biographical details are in the article on Wikipedia (German).