Curt Wittig

US producer and sound engineer (1939-2011).
Curt Wittig has collaborated with many of the world’s finest musicians in the United States and abroad. Curt recorded his first 20th Century Consort concert in October, 1979, and has recorded nearly every one until 2011, over 130 concerts and more than 500 individual works. He preserved and engineered these recordings to build the 21st Century Consort Archive, which is permanently housed at the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland. These recordings preserve definitive performances of the best 20th / 21st century chamber music for performers, music-lovers, and scholars into the next century and beyond. Curt has more than 160 albums on LP and CD to his credit, along with hundreds of live and recorded radio and television broadcasts, and the sound tracks for a variety of theatrical and documentary films. Curt has worked extensively with musical and educational institutions in the Washington area, receiving awards including a Cine Golden Eagle for a soundtrack of African traditional music for a film by the Smithsonian Museum of African Art; the Julian Wulson Award from National Public Radio for “Best live chamber music recording” of a concert by The Folger Consort; and a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Engineering of an album of music by contemporary American composer George Crumb. He has also done audio production for multimedia installations at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library; the Chicago Historical Society; the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History; the Corcoran, Renwick, and National Portrait Galleries; Explorer's Hall at the National Geographic Society; and the Rhodes University Museum in Grahamstown, South Africa.