Sam M Toyoshima receives Fellowship Award from AES
Published: ASIA
JAPAN: Japanese acoustic designer Sam M Toyoshima has received a Fellowship Award from the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Mr Toyoshima, a visiting professor from Yokkaichi University, received the award for his ‘valuable contribution to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering, and the promotion of its application in practice’.
The decision to present Mr Toyoshima with the award was approved by the AES Awards Committee and Board of Governors, who felt he was a deserving winner due to his ‘worldwide contribution to the field of studio acoustic design’.
The first studio acoustic designer in the Asia Pacific region to win the award, Mr Toyoshima spans a successful career having designed over 250 facilities worldwide. He first founded the Acoustic Design Office at JVC in 1977 where he started designing recording studios and concert halls. Included in the list of studios Mr Toyoshima has designed in Japan are: Warner Music, Onkio Haus, Roland, On Air, and West Side.
In 1985, Mr Toyoshima established the Acoustics Design Group in the UK with architect John Flynn, Bike Suzuki, and producer and engineer Hugh Padgham. Throughout the 80s he went on to design numerous studios in London, including Abbey Road, Town House, Olympic, Metropolis, and Sarm West.
Since then Mr Toyoshima has widened his field of design activities to include Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Since 2001 he has been a professor teaching acoustics at the Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences at Yokkaichi University.
Mr Toyoshima received the award from Jim Kaiser, president of AES at the Novotel London West Convention Centre, UK.