New Paltz – The State University of New York at New Paltz’s 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, 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, September 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, his occupational inclinations have produced the design and construction of more than
3,000 world-class audio and video production facilities, recording studios, radio stations,
corporate media and conference rooms, educational and entertainment facilities, clubs,
stadiums, and theaters. The Walters-Storyk Design Group has created personal studios for
Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Green Day, Aerosmith and many other platinum-selling artists.
WSDG Live venue credits include Jazz at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, and Le Poisson
Rouge in NYC. Broadcast facility projects include architecture and/or audio-acoustic
planning and design for CBS, WNET, ESPN, Food Network, TSR Broadcasting, Geneva;
UPC Broadcasting, Amsterdam and VGTRK – Public Broadcasting/Moscow. 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 U.S. and has established courses in acoustics at Yale University,
Columbia, NYU, Ex’Pression College ,CA and Full Sail Center, FL. 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. Storyk received an AES Fellowship Award in 2011.
Commenting on his early years, Storyk said, “My first major studio was for Jimi Hendrix. Imagine how
surprised I was when (as a kid of 22) I went to the New York City Building Department (a place I would
never go to now) to get the drawings for that building (which was then and now the basement of the
8th Street Cinema) only to find that this was the same cinema that had been designed by Frederick
Keisler in the 1920's.”
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 call 845.257.3860.
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