MALVICINO DESIGN GROUP By Stephen Gallagher, Canford Marketing Manager and Horacio Malvicino, Managing Director of Malvicino Design Group Longstanding Canford customer Malvicino Design Group is a design and consulting firm specialising in innovative architectural, acoustical, and technical systems design. Headquartered in Manhattan, New York, USA with a manufacturing facility in Europe, the company has amassed an unrivalled level of experience in its field. Founded by Acoustic Designer and System Integrator Horacio Malvicino, who fine-tuned his knowledge while running the technical division at The Hit Factory. A highpressure engineering role that would see the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate repairing kit and preparing studios for famous clientele, and where he once simultaneously ran studios for Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon. Malvicino Design Group has completed in excess of 300 projects around the globe. The skilled team has truly established the firm as industry leaders. The company has an enviable résumé which includes world-class projects for clients such as Sony Music Studios – Miami and Capitol Studios – LA, alongside customised solutions for Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Steely Dan, Alicia Keys, the Scissor Sisters and Sting to name just a few.
and Television. Described by Horacio as ‘an interesting place to go’, where site visits involved flights that would dip and dive to avoid incoming RPG fire! In an exclusive Q&A for Canford’s Source Material, Canford Marketing Manager Stephen Gallagher caught up with Horacio Malvicino to find out more about the man behind Malvicino Design Group, learn where it all began and ask what the future holds:
Beyond recording studios and postproduction workspaces Malvicino Design Group delivers facilities for broadcasters around the world. Broadcast projects have included a TV studio overlooking the Giza Pyramids in Cairo for ART. Another memorable project commissioned by Sony saw Malvicino lead his team to Iraq. The team would deliver a recording facility and post production rooms for Iraq Radio
Your career, and the work of Malvicino Design Group has been nothing short of impressive. Where did it all begin? Could you provide an introduction for yourself? My lifelong dream was to become a professional tennis player. I started playing at an early age locally and then travelling to nationals. As you can imagine, it didn’t go that well with my parents. While I was doing pretty good my parents thought that it was a dead end street, so my only option was to give college a try. I come from a family of musicians. My Dad has been a guitar player and mostly made a living scoring orchestras for a vast array of artists. For that reason, I started spending time in recording studios, especially RCA studios (where my Dad was a staff producer for the label) at a very early age. By the late 60’s I was
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