Mark Willsher

Known for his work with Peter Jackson and Howard Shore on the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Mark Willsher is equally at home as producer, engineer, mixer, and supervising music editor. His work spans a broad array of genres, from feature films to classical, folk, and hip-hop. Recent projects include New Line Cinema's 'Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim' (Composer: Stephen Gallagher), Netflix's animated feature 'Ultraman: Rising' (Composer: Scot Stafford), and the San Francisco Symphony's recording of Kaija Saariaho's Opera Adriana Mater (Music Director: Esa-Pekka Salonen) - for which (as mixing engineer) he won a Grammy® Award for Best Opera Recording.

With a background in music performance, and a deep understanding of all technical aspects of the recording process, Mark's guiding philosophy is always to be able to step back and be absorbed by recordings on an emotional level - to not be conscious of the speakers, microphones, editing, mixing. His personal studio is a fully equipped immersive mixing space with a hybrid analogue/digital workflow.