Purchase Records...

• is an innovative and ambitious series of recordings that display the diverse talents in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College. The label was launched in 2000 by Joe Ferry, James McElwaine, and Karl Kramer, with the release of the Grammy-nominated CD Public Domain. To date, Purchase Records has released five CDs and received three Grammy nominations.
   
  
• features the talents of our resident and visiting faculty members, each of them a renowned professional musician; the distinctive talents of our student performers, composers, producers, and engineers; and the collaborative talents of other selected professional musicians from the metropolitan New York area.
   
  
• is a good example of our Conservatory’s uncommon teaching method. It allows our students to learn in a professional environment how to write, perform, arrange, orchestrate, produce, engineer, mix, edit, and master the recorded part of our musical art. The learning continues with a study of postproduction, design, packaging, manufacturing, publishing, distribution, touring, promotion, marketing, and corporate collaboration.

At Purchase College, we believe the study of music should include all the elements of music’s past accomplishment, its present-day potential, and its future possibility. Our Conservatory is acclaimed for its unique and intensive preparation of young musical artists in a thoroughly professional community that is, at once, both artistically competitive and individually nurturing.

Public Domain 
Grammy nominee for Best Contemporary Folk Album, 2000 / Executive Producers: Joe Ferry, Jim McElwaine, and Karl Kramer / Produced by: Joe Ferry / Engineered and Mixed by: Roy Matthews / Recorded 1998-2000 at The Loft Recording Studios, Bronxville, NY (more >>)

Jacque Trussel, Tenor: Sounds & Sweet Airs: Scenes & Arias for Tenor
Grammy nominee for Best Classical Vocal Performance, 2001 / Produced by: Bonnie Hamilton / Engineered by: Jaroslav Stranavsky / Musical Preparation by: Hugh Murphy / Recorded September 22-26, 1997 at the Janácek Cultural Center, Havivov, Czech Republic (more >>)

Bradley Brookshire, Harpsichord: J.S. Bach, The French Suites
Grammy nominee for Best Classical Keyboard Performance, 2002 / Executive Producers: Jim McElwaine and Karl Kramer / Produced by: Joe Ferry / Engineered and Edited by: Pete Romano / Recorded January 2001 in the Recital Hall, PurchaseCollege (more >>)

Doug Munro, Mariano Mangas: Jazz Flamenco Guitars
Executive Producers: Joe Ferry, Jim McElwaine, and Karl Kramer / Produced by: Doug Munro, Mariano Mangas, and Pete Romano / Engineered and Edited by: Pete Romano / Recorded May 2001 at the Purchase College Studios (more >>)
 

Jazz Faculty @ Purchase College - 10th Aniversary Celebration
Executive Producers: Jim McElwaine and Fred Griffen / Produced by: Joe Ferry, Todd Coolman, and Doug Munro / Engineered by: Richie Castillano and Phil Moffa / Mastered by: Andrew Cardenas for Digital Sweets Enterprises / Recorded in 2002 at the Purchase College Studios.