Global Alumni

Ramera Abraham is a London-based vocal producer, recording engineer, and songwriter. Having spent her younger years studying music in the Philippines, Abraham is now classically trained in piano, vocals, and drums. After completing her undergraduate degree in Canada, the multi-faceted created moved to London in 2017 to study our Advanced Diploma in Sound Engineering and Music Production course at Abbey Road Institute.

Upon graduating from the Institute, Abraham earned an engineering residency at Spotify’s Noteable studio, under the mentorship of Berklee College of Music. It was there that she dealt with daily studio operations and delved into the world of vocal production and engineering. After her Spotify residency, Abraham became a runner and then assistant engineer at Metropolis Studios, where she assisted on several projects. Including: Little Mix’s last two albums, Grammy-nominated musical theatre album “Cinderella” with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ album, Carnage.

Abraham has since progressed into a freelance role, primarily at music distribution and artist services company, Platoon. Some of her biggest career highlights include working with Saint Harison, TianaMajor9, RAYE, Luz, Ms Banks, Henry Moodie, Kamille, and Matt Taylor. She was also included in SheSaid.So’s Alternative Power 100 List 2021 as one to watch, and is the Music Producers Guild’s Vocal Producer of the Year 2023.

Abraham has also taught several vocal production masterclasses with MPW, ICMP, University of Winchester, and at her alma mater, Abbey Road Institute. She has been creating vocal arrangements and writing harmonies from a very young age and has been in the professional recording industry for nearly six years. The majority of her work spans across the pop and R&B genres. Find out more about Ramera Abraham on her website. 

After graduating from our Advanced Diploma in Music Production and Sound Engineering, Gabriëlle Stok joined the team at SARM studio as an assistant engineer. She worked her way up to become an engineer, working with many artists, including Little Mix, most notably assisting on Madonna’s album, ‘Madame X.’

Whilst at SARM, her first producer cut, Koffee ft. Gunna ‘W’, was released. She is now signed under her producer name ‘GG’ to Warner/Chappell and is Grammy nominated for her work on Masego’s album ‘Studying Abroad: Extended Stay’.

Some of her highlights at SARM include working with American producer Jeff Bhasker (Kanye West, Jay Z, Mark Ronson) and engineering during his writing sessions.

After leaving SARM to work freelance, Gabi has steadily built her career as a producer, engineer, songwriter, musician and more. Discover some of Gabi’s strongest influences in the May 2024 Issue of Sound on Sound.

You can learn more about Gabrielle’s experience at SARM in her interview on our blog.

Léo Chupine trained at Abbey Road Institute Paris from January to December 2018. Following his graduation 
he first became an Assistant Engineer at the Studio de Meudon. This studio is particularly well known for 
providing two exceptional concert pianos for recording - a Steinway and a Fazioli. 
Léo Chupin then started work as a freelance sound engineer following his first sessions at the 
Studio de Meudon. He's had great recognition for his work and his innovative approach. In the second half 
of 2019, KR magazine selected him to be one of the "10 emeritus sound engineers" who have new ideas 
about the industry. The article was published in the special issue winter 2019-2020 edition.

Stéphanie Ung completed her training at Abbey Road Institute Paris in 2019. Before studying with us 
Stéphanie undertook classical training at the Paris Conservatory where she learned the violin. 
She then became interested in writing and composition which allowed her to discover and explore electronic 
music. It was her interest in this genre that encouraged her to pursue her studies at Abbey Road Institute Paris 
where she developed skills in sound engineering and music production. 

Within two months of obtaining her diploma Stéphanie secured an internship at Coppélia Studios. The following 
month, she was hired as an assistant and worked on sessions with Youv Eee, 7 Jaws, Yseult, Kungs, 
Ben l’oncle Soul and has begun to do sessions as a sound engineer where she has recorded 
artist Laetitia Bay.

Phoenix Manson is an artist/music producer from Melbourne. He makes Hip Hop and R&B music that infuses an old school vibe with the modern new wave sound. Having graduated at the end of 2017, Phoenix has since released WAVELENGTH – EP, with toplining by Charlotte Adelle as a result. Phoenix was also an integral part of the Beat Collective Committee. Most noteworthy, he ran the fortnightly, live streaming show on TRNSMT. He also performed at festivals and venues including Electric Relaxation, Surf Coast Arts Festival, Beat Collective Sessions and High Bias. Having moved from Melbourne to Berlin to start building a network in Europe, Phoenix is now exploring the electronic music scene. As a result of this, he is working with rappers and producing beats for their projects.

Phoenix’s creativity in unstoppable, and consequently most of his time is spent in the studio. He is constantly making new music for his own project or for other singers/rappers. Furthermore, Ableton Live is his weapon of choice. Consequently, Phoenix has grown from a bedroom producer who made music as a hobby to an audio professional. You can find out more about Phoenix on his website. 

Following his graduation, Dominic Parry worked as a full-time apprentice at leading audio equipment rental company Britannia Row Productions. Founded by Pink Floyd, Britannia Row has grown to become a global leader providing equipment for the London Olympics, Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons and The Cure‘s tour. Dominic assisted in the 2019 Brit Awards as a stage technician for numerous performing acts including James Bay, Calvin Harris, Hugh Jackman, and P!NK. He has also worked on Andrea Bocelli’s world tour and the MTV European Music Awards. Dominic’s apprenticeship scheme at Britannia Row Productions continued the training he started at Abbey Road Institute. He worked for several months in each of the companies departments (Maintenance, Speakers, Cables, Rigging, RF, Digital, Warehouse Manager Assistant & Prep) whilst taking part in two 15 week training courses; Live Sound fundamentals and Live Sound Intermediate graduating with distinctions in both.

Despite COVID having cleared his calendar of potential work in 2020, Dominic was not disheartened but instead moved to New Zealand, who were COVID free at the time, to find stable audio work. There he freelanced for Oceania Productions on: All Blacks vs Australia Bledisloe Cup (Corporate Lounge), Aotearoa Music Awards (mic & backstage management) and Plane Sailing festival 2022 (stage tech). He also started as a Production Technician for Streamliner Productions where he was then promoted to Head Venue Technician for Sky City.

Dominic is extremely proud of his work in New Zealand, working on projects that hold extreme significance to Māori culture such as operating the audio for The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care in 2022.

Dominic is currently taking the Ableton Professional Certificate with Berklee Online, hoping to break into playback engineer roles in the future.