Audio Engineering Society Lifetime Achievement Awards • 2025
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The Nashville Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) pays tribute to Music City’s groundbreaking engineers during this ceremony, hosted by former AES chairman Mike Porter, Lifetime Achievement Committee Chairman Alan Litten, and AES Nashville Section Chairman Terry Watson. This program was recorded live on June 1, 2025, in the Museum’s Ford Theater.
During the ceremony, Wayne Moss, Bob Ohlsson, and Bob Todrank all receive lifetime achievement awards from AES Nashville. Mike Poston and Bil VornDick are also recognized posthumously. Photographs, audio samples, and video remembrances from musicians, artists, and producers who worked with each honoree illustrate the impact these engineers made on the creative and technical evolution of Nashville’s studio scene and beyond.
The Audio Engineering Society is an international professional society devoted to audio technology and which unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists, and students worldwide by promoting advances in audio and disseminating new knowledge and research.
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