Category: Interviews
Joe Castronovo
President & CEO, Korg USA, Inc. By Dan Ferrisi One of the best resources that our industry has is the collected experience, wisdom and insight of individuals who have spent what amounts to a lifetime in the music products industry, riding the rollercoaster through good times and bad, while seeing a veritable parade of products [...]
Ron Manus • CEO, Alfred Music Publishing
By Dan Ferrisi Never does a year go by without, either at the NAMM show or maybe out in Nashville at Summer NAMM, one or several companies announcing a milestone anniversary: 20 years…30 years…maybe 50 years every once in a while. It is definitely rare, though, to see a company marking 90 years in business, [...]
Timothy Dorwart • General Manager, Gibson Pro Audio
By Dan Ferrisi At the end of last year, all of us heard the news that Gibson Guitar had created a pro audio division through the acquisition of the platform assets of the Stanton Group. The Stanton Group is, of course, comprised of KRK Systems, Cerwin-Vega! and Stanton DJ, and is known for making products [...]
Robert Godin • President & Founder, Godin Guitars
By Dan Ferrisi We all know that the guitar market, encompassing both acoustics and electrics, is an enormously competitive space in which countless manufacturers—many with venerable, well-respected names—duke it out to win guitar players’ business and earn the endorsements of those whom today’s garage band rockers seek to emulate. And, when you talk about a [...]
Andy Zildjian
President, Sabian By Dan Ferrisi Andy Zildjian, President of Sabian—the well known cymbal company, based in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada, that is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year—has quite a story to tell, having essentially been born into the music products industry and, en route to helming Sabian, having served in a number of roles, [...]
Five Minutes With
Alfred Gonzales National Sales Manager, American DJ By Dan Ferrisi If you are part of the music products industry, you know about the Los Angeles CA-based ADJ Group, whose premier products, across several brands, have drawn avid customer support (as well as their share of acclaim during Music & Sound Awards season). Starting in 1985 [...]
