School of Fine and Performing Arts holds inaugural lecture series

The School of Fine and Performing Arts (F&PA) is pleased to announce its launch of the F&PA Speaker Series. The inaugural speaker, John Storyk, principal at the Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG), will give a presentation titled “…when you come to a fork in the road take both roads…John Storyk – A Career in Music and Architecture” on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 5:30 p.m. in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

About John Storyk
As an aspiring musician and architecture student at Princeton and Columbia Universities, Storyk’s career has followed a natural pursuit of his two favorite subjects: music and architecture. Forty years on, WSDG has produced the design and construction of more than 3,000 world-class audio and video production, recording studios facilities (including personal studios for Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Green Day, Aerosmith and many other platinum-selling artists), radio stations, corporate media and conference rooms, educational and entertainment facilities, clubs, stadiums, and theaters.

A member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Storyk is a frequent contributor to AES Convention Panels and Papers. He lectures at schools around the country and has established courses in acoustics at Yale University, Columbia, NYU, Ex’Pression College, and Full Sail Center. WSDG is currently completing a 20,000 sq. ft. professional audio education complex for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where Storyk is adjunct professor of Acoustics and Studio Design. In 2011, he  received an AES Fellowship Award.

About the Speaker Series
The School of Fine & Performing Arts Speaker Series brings to campus practitioners and scholars from across the art world to examine, explore, and illuminate the choices that lead to careers and lives in art.  From early career to lifelong retrospective, actors, directors, visual artists, musicians, scholars, therapists and educators from around the country, and the world, are invited to share their perspectives on how they got started and how they sustain themselves financially, intellectually, and artistically.

For additional information, please contact (845) 257-3860.