Recording Engineer/Producer
CBC Records

Peter Cook is a recording engineer/producer for CBC Records. The bulk of his time is spent editing and mastering CDs for the label at the CBC's Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. He also teaches in the Master of Music Program at McGill University in Montreal and is guest faculty at The Banff Centre. Prior to joining the CBC in 1991, Peter worked at Classic Sound in New York City, and as a freelance recording engineer and editor in Montreal.

He is a graduate of the Sound Recording Program at McGill (B.Mus 84, M.Mus 91) and taught classes in that program for several years. His master's thesis investigated the use of stereo microphone techniques for encoding acoustic music recordings for Dolby surround-compatible playback. Peter is a founding member and past chair of the McGill student section of the Audio Engineering Society and is a past chair of the Toronto section. He has credits on ten Juno Award winning CDs and won a Gemini Award for "Best Sound" for his work as recording engineer on the Rhombus Media film Peter Grimes: A Tale of Tanglewood.