About Peckham Media Productions
Peckham Media Productions is an audio and video production company specializing in site-specific recordings and livestreams. Founded in 2021 to address the explosive increase in demand for online event services, we strive to empower artists, schools, and businesses with targeted, cost effective media services.
About Our Team
Matthew Peckham, Founder
Contact: matt@peckhammp.com
Matthew Peckham is a multi-disciplinary artist and entrepreneur. With over a decade of experience in producing, recording, and performing, he knows live events inside and out.
Matthew founded Peckham Media Productions in response to the sudden demand for recording and streaming during the early months of the COVID 19 pandemic, and he now spends his workdays providing those services for businesses, schools, and performing arts organizations. His diverse clientele include Northwestern University, Chicago Fringe Opera, Chicago Public Schools, TEDx Wrigleyville, and scores of other individuals and organizations in the Chicagoland area.
Also at home as a studio engineer, Matthew has album credits on Naxos Music Library, Spotify, iTunes, and all other major streaming platforms. He has engineered world premiere recordings for multiple operas, including Daron Hagen’s opera films Orson Rehearsed and 9/10: Love Before the Fall, along with a live performance album series for Thompson Street Opera Company, where he served as a board member from 2016 - 2020. Recent commercial album releases include Dana Brown and Michelle Areyzaga’s art song album "Were I With Thee," featuring words penned by women and set by American composers, and Alexis Enyart’s folk album "Witness," a musical exploration of transgender identity.
Matthew holds two degrees in music (BM University of Michigan ‘12, MM Chicago College of Performing Arts ‘15). After leaving school, Matthew spent five years at Atlas Arts Media, where he learned videography and recording engineering while assisting with the capture of 200+ performances a year at Roosevelt University’s music conservatory. From there he went on to apprentice with master recording engineers Christopher Willis (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Music of the Baroque) and Hudson Fair (WFMT Radio). Matthew is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Alongside his musical and technical training, Matthew has over a decade of experience in the management of performing arts and non-profit organizations. He served on the Executive Board of the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society (Marketing Chair 2010-12, President 2012-13), Co-founded of the Chicago Vocal Arts Consortium in 2015, and served on the inaugural board of Thompson Street Opera Company (Vice President 2016-18, President 2018-20)
Austin Williams, AV Tevhnician
Austin Williams is a skilled audio and video operator on the PMP production team! With technical experience from countless projects, he knows exactly how to deliver on events ranging from live streams to studio recordings. Austin’s background is in classical composition (graduate of UW Eau Claire and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University) and he loves working with composers and performers of new music. His knowledge of music technology is ever growing due to his personal creative practice, so if you have any tech questions don’t be afraid to hit him up! He has a wide range of contacts in the community to help folks troubleshoot any issues they may encounter.
Nicholas Lin, Video Editor
Nicholas Lin started working with Peckham Media Productions as a production assistant in the fall of 2021. In addition to on-site work, large-scale editing projects, inventory organization, and helping manage client relations, he also works on PMP’s branding by creating PMP concept art and animations. Since working at PMP he has had the pleasure of collaborating with The Florentine Opera, Chicago Fringe Opera, Roosevelt University, Wheaton College, Chai Collaborative Ensemble, Chicago Public Schools, and individual artists around Chicago. He is also a professional tenor and music teacher who is based out of Milwaukee and the greater Chicago-land area. Groups he’s performed with include the Florentine Opera Company, Music of the Baroque, Opera for the Young, and The Chicago Symphony Chorus. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s voice and opera program class of 2021 where he studied under Karen Brunssen. In his free-time, he enjoys traveling, playing the guitar, and cooking!
Press
“Textures positively glow; the complexities and depth of this “dream opera” keep on revealing themselves on repeated listenings. That, and the sheer excellence of both cast (perfectly chosen) and recording (crystal clear, with a great sense of perspective). There is something about world premiere recordings; they have a particular vibrancy, and this release has that in spades. From every angle, this is a sure-fire winner.”
— Colin Clarke, reviewing Orson Rehearsed
Fanfare, November 2021
“That the material is brought vividly to life by Areyzaga's stirring soprano, which veritably soars throughout the recording, and Brown's sensitive accompaniment makes the recording all the more special. Whether singing at a hush or declaiming ecstatically at full volume, Areyzaga makes a powerful impression, and Brown shows himself to be an ever-empathetic and supportive partner.”
— Review of Were I With Thee
Textura, February, 2022, (Read More)
“This intriguing and unusual audio document leaves one eager to see the Orson Rehearsed movie, for the full operafilm experience.”
— Joshua Rosenblum, reviewing Orson Rehearsed
Opera News, August 2021 (Read More)
Frequent Collaborators
Every project is unique, and sometimes we need to tap our network for people with the perfect skillset. Here are a few of our most frequent collaborators.
Shelby Lock Music
Atlas Arts Media
Shelby Lock is our preferred mixing and mastering engineer for high level classical music albums. Trained in Nashville, she specializes in creating authentic acoustic recordings. We will frequently run recording sessions here in town and then send them off to her in Virginia for that final layer of polish!
Atlas Arts is our go-to collaborator for multi camera streaming and recording projects. It makes a huge difference to have your audio, video, and streaming teams perfectly in sync, and there is no one who we trust more with complex multimedia projects