Murat Çolak is a mastering and recording engineer, mixer, and producer based in Manhattan, working with artists and labels worldwide.

With a background as a classically trained composer (MA, Istanbul Technical University; DMA, Boston University), his engineering practice is informed by a multi-faceted perspective that merges musical, technical, and aesthetic insight. He focuses on classical, avant-garde, and electroacoustic music, with credits on international art music labels such as KAIROS, Edition Wandelweiser, NEOS, Jazzland, Another Timbre, Da Vinci Classics, Neuma, Innova, and New Focus Recordings. His work also extends to jazz, world music, hip-hop, and electronic dance music, allowing his experience in contemporary art music to bring a unique sonic vision to genres driven by rhythm, sound design, and voice.

Education is a core part of his work. He teaches music composition, production, and technology at Montclair State University and with the New York Philharmonic. He has held teaching residencies and given talks at institutions including Columbia University’s Computer Music Center (CMC), Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Harvard University’s Group for New Music (HGNM), Simon Fraser University School of Contemporary Arts, and UC Berkeley’s CNMAT.

His studio, GERYON, is located in uptown Manhattan. It is a dedicated space for mastering and mixing, as well as meeting artists and listening deeply. He also produces high-fidelity location recordings in studios, venues, and houses of worship across New York City and beyond.

Murat collaborates with artists working across a wide range of scales and practices, from intimate solo projects to large-scale ensemble and interdisciplinary works, and is particularly drawn to music that challenges conventions and expands the possibilities of sound.