Christoph Stickel
Christoph is a Grammy-nominated mastering engineer with his own mastering studio in Vienna, Austria.
He started out in 1992 as a mastering and remastering engineer at the renowned msm studios and has been operating under his own label, christoph stickel mastering, since 2013. To date, he has mastered and remastered more than 5,500 albums.
He is known for his work with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Mariss Jansons, the Vienna, Berlin and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, John Williams, Arvo Pärt, Yello, Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Die Ärzte, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Michael Schenker, Gidon Kremer and many other international artists from all musical genres.
Albums he has mastered have received numerous awards, including the German Record Critics' Award, Opus Klassik, Supersonic Pizzicato, Diapason d'Or, Choc de Classica, ICMA, the Gramophone Classical Music Award, and other highly prestigious prizes.
In addition to mastering current recordings, remastering from the original analogue tape is a significant part of his work.
Here you will find names such as Maria Callas, Pat Metheny, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arthur Rubinstein, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Gould, Friedrich Gulda, Herbert von Karajan, Baden Powell, Monty Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald, Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein...
Since 2014, he has been working closely with Horch House, now REVOX| Horch House and a brand of the Revox Group, and is responsible for the entire mastering/remastering of all master tape copies of the company.
He is also a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) (Austria) and at the Detmold University of Music (ETI) (Germany).
Christoph is a true music lover and a proven music expert. And now also Revox brand ambassador.
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