ABOUT
Originally from Madrid, Spain, Marián is a Latin Grammy nominated studio/FOH engineer, producer, musician and sound designer based in New York City.
Marian is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a dual major in Music Production & Engineering and Contemporary Writing. During her time in Boston, Marian had the opportunity to record a number of projects with multi Grammy winner Javier Limón.
In 2014, She was nominated for a Latin Grammy of her own in the category of ‘Best Engineered Album’ for her work as a recording engineer on the flamenco/world fusion album, “Promesas De Tierra” by Javier Limón.
Marián continued her professional journey in New York as the head engineer at Shapeshifter Lab, where she had the opportunity to work with and record some major figures of the jazz world including: Jack Dejohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison, Arturo O'farrill, Donny McCaslin, Mark Guiliana, Shai Maestro, among others.
In addition to her FOH and studio work, Marián works in the theater realm as mixing engineer and sound designer. After mixing the Off-Broadway Musical Hello Girls (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Nominations) Marián began to collaborate with sound designer Kevin Heard. This partnership led her to work as Associate Sound Designer for the Off-Broadway productions of Safeword (ATA), #DateMe: An OK Cupid Experiment and Neal Brennan: Unnaceptable.
She also worked as sound mixer with the writer Candace Bushnell in her staged play Is There Still Sex in The City.
Marián has also worked as Associate Designer and Mixer for Tony winner Cricket Myers in Taylor Mac's jazz opera The Hang (HERE) (Drama desk Nomination for Outstanding Musical) and A1 for Heather Christian's Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova. Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound and Nom Oust. Musical and Obie special citation) under Nick Kourtides design.
Following this collaboration, Marián is currently working with Nick as Associate designer and A1 for the newest Ars Nova production Travels by James Harrison Monaco.
Today, Marián is a versatile freelance who works in a variety of fields and teaching Production Masterclass at SUNY Purchase.
With Michael Ciro -Alejandro Sanz MD- recording La música no se toca for the Latin Grammy's performance '13.