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Charlie Pilzer
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Charlie Pilzer
Charlie Pilzer, resident of Takoma Park, MD, is a founder of Azalea City Recordings.
Charlie's career has included performing, producing and engineering award-winning
Celtic, folk and acoustic music. For over 25 years he has toured and recorded
as a bass player with Spælimenninir, a Scandinavian folk group based
in the Faroe Islands. He is well known as a dance musician (piano and bass)
for New England and Scandinavian folk dances and has toured from Maine to
Alaska.
He has been on the staff at weeks for the Country Dance & Song Society
and the Christmas Country Dance School at Berea College and has served as
program director for the CDSS Family Week program at Pinewoods Camp. He is
the Artistic Associate for Music for Washington Revels and served as co-Music
Director for their 2003 Christmas Revels production and directed the last
several years of May Revels.
When not performing, Charlie works as the engineer at Airshow Mastering in
Springfield, VA. His success with mastering all the genres of music made
in the mid-Atlantic region--from gospel to folk, world music to alternative--can
be attributed to his broad base of experience and musical knowledge. Charlie's
attention to detail is well known and is best exemplified in the audio restoration
of vintage recordings. In addition to mastering a dozen GRAMMY-nominated
projects, Charlie received a GRAMMY for mastering and restoration on the
Anthology of American Folk Music (1997).
Following
his belief that one should give back to one's community, Charlie currently
serves on the Board of Governors for the Washington, DC Chapter of NARAS,
is the program chair for the Folklore Society of Greater Washington and a
member of the executive committee of the Washington Section of the Audio
Engineering Society. He is a proud member of Local 1000 of the American Federation
of Musicians and a former board member of Folk Alliance.
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