ABSTRACT
Born in London, Kurlander has been in the recording industry since 1967, with the first 28 years spent at EMI’s Abbey Road facility. He began his career working as an assistant to Geoff Emerick on the Beatles album, Abbey Road, with Emerick winning the engineering Grammy for that album. Expanding his horizons, Kurlander did some singles with Paul McCartney, and in the early 1980s he engineered the popular Hooked on Classics series. Later, he recorded Toto and Elton John, layering 80-piece orchestra tracks on top of the rock-music tracks. This led to doing some serious classical recordings around 1980, which included projects with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1985, Kurlander became Abbey Road’s chief balance engineer and also chief classical engineer for EMI. Today, he is a highly sought, Hollywood-based independent engineer specializing in major motion picture film scoring and soundtrack albums.
