Iskra Kalcheva

Portfolio Available at: www.iskrakalcheva.com

 

Skills Profile

·     Excellent skills in sound design and sound effects recording

·     Strong experience in music recording, audio post-production for film

·     Strong experience in mixing (stereo and 5.1 surround)

·     Strong experience in dubbing, voice-over recording for film

·     Experience as a professional classical pianist

·     Excellent communication and teamwork skills

·     MMus and BMus in music and sound engineering

·     Great love, passion and creativity for video games

·     Fluent in English and Bulgarian; speaks French at a conversational level

 

Related Experience

Sound Editor (Internship)                                                                                                                                                              Dec 2009

Tattersall Sound and Picture                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

·        Sound effects editing

Music Scoring Cue Director for the NYOC Live Webcasting (Montreal)                                                                        July 2009 – Aug 2009

Script musical scores for live video webcast for concert performance of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada

Sound Recording Engineer / Editor for Making Music 3 (MM3) and DocShop 6                                                       Feb 2009 – Aug 2009

National Filmboard of Canada                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

·        Film music recording for various film projects of professional workshops at the National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

·        Sound design, sound effects recording, dialog recording, audio postproduction

Sound Effects Editor / Foley Artist for the documentary Playing the Room

(Commercial release October 2009)                                                                                                                                   Dec 2008

·        Foley recording, sound design and audio postproduction

·        Experience as a Foley artist

Sound Recording Engineer                                                                                                                                                            Sep 2006 – Aug 2009

Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC

·        Voice narration, overdubbing and vocal performance recording for various film projects

·        Record live concerts indoors and outdoors

·        Lead recording sessions with various film projects

·        Equipment used: Digidesign Pro Tools HD 8.0 DAW, Pyramix 6 software

 

Sound Recording Engineer                                                                                                                                                            May 2008 – Aug 2008

Banff Centre, Banff, AB

·        Audio postproduction for commercial CD releases

·        Led music recording studio sessions

·        Recorded live concerts indoors and outdoors

·        Equipment used: Euphonix CS 3000, Digidesign Pro Tools HD 7.4 DAW, Pyramix 6 software

Sound Engineer/Editor                                                                                                                                                                  Oct 2004 – Sep 2006

Alexandra Audio – Overdubbing Facility, Sofia, Bulgaria

Alexandra Audio is a leading Bulgarian postproduction company with an exclusive license to dub and master films in Bulgaria.

·        Duties included: dubbing, post-synchronization, sound editing

·        Dubbed in Bulgarian: Open Season (2006), Monster House (2006), Robots (2005)

Lilo and Stitch, Kim Possible, Recess, Goof Troops

·        Equipment used: digital mixer Yamaha 01V96, Digidesign Pro Tools 6.2.3 Digital Audio Workstation

 

Education

Master’s of Sound Recording                                                                                                                                                      Sep 2006 – May 2009

Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal, QC

·        Concentration:  Sound Recording and Audio PostProduction

Bachelor’s of Music and Sound Engineering                                                                                                                          Sep 2002 – June 2006

National Academy of Music, Sofia, Bulgaria

·        Concentration: Sound Recording and Multimedia Design

                              Music Education, Piano Performance

·        Final thesis: Technology and Creation of Sound Effects in Audio-Visual Production

·        Final project: 4:30 minute audio-visual project demonstrating the significance of audio effects in the audio-visual production

·        Engineered classical music recordings

·        Actively performing as a professional solo and chamber music pianist

 

 

Technical Skills


·        Pro Tools 6.1 – 8.0

·        Pyramix 6

·        Vegas Video 6

·        Final Cut Pro Studio

·        DVD Studio Pro

·        Sound Forge

·        PC and Mac platforms

·        MS Office