Damien Quintard

Damien Quintard (born 21 June 1991) is a French record producer, composer, engineer and entrepreneur known for his work with artists Brian Eno, Justice, Parcels, Teodor Currentzis, Arca, L’Impératrice, Dimitris Papaioannou, and Bertrand Chamayou.

He is also the Founder and CEO of The Mono Company (2018) a production company and SoundX (2019) a firm focused on Research and Innovation. Their first project, numéro un, focuses on bringing music to the Deaf Community, with the first Artificial Intelligence made for and calibrated by institutes around the world and a patented vibration pack that translates sounds in real time.

He co-founded with Brad Pitt “Miraval Studios” in 2021, a recording studio inside Chateau Miraval, bought by Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2009. Bringing back to life the iconic “Studio Miraval”, considered in the 70s till the late 90s as one of the most prestigious studios in the world, recording acts such as Pink Floyd (The Wall), AC/DC, Rammstein, Sting, Muse among others.

Quintard's latest awards and recognitions comprise an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live and Direct to Tape Sound Mixing for the 2015-2016 European Olympic Opening Ceremony and getting in Forbes France's list of Forbes 30 under 30.

Quintard was born in Paris. Inspired by his multicultural childhood spent across the globe in Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore, Quintard started to learn music theory and piano at the age of 3. He pursued his musical education in different conservatories and local music schools. He returned to Paris in his teenage years and started the band, Dot Legacy, that successfully toured around Europe, Brazil and Canada winning the Best International Emerging Artist award at the Canadian Indie Week in December 2018. Fascinated by science, specifically maths and physics, he studied aerospace engineering before turning to audio engineering.

Quintard's first recordings were charity based for the National Institute for the Young and Blind (INJA) in Paris where his sister, Soprano Aurore Quintard, would often sing. He dived deeper into the world of sound and audio engineering and created his first professional recordings for the renowned studio Little Tribeca, where he worked as Studio Manager. During this time, he recorded and produced many award-winning productions such as Schumann, Schubert, Brahms with Lise Berthaud & Adam Laloum and Johann Adolf Hasse: Siroe, Re di Persiaith Max Emmanuel Cenčić & George Petrou.

Damien Quintard started recording, mixing and mastering the rising classical star Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra musicAeterna in 2012. Throughout the years, Currentzis became a friend and a mentor who helped improve Quintard's technique and detailed work. Their collaboration resulted in a series of recognized awards, particularly for Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony and Mozart's Don Giovanni that won respectively the Gold and Silver Record Academy Award in Japan – that being the first time in 55 iterations that the same artist wins the top two prizes consecutively.

These recordings successfully won several awards, counting the Diapason d'Or (2017) and the Gramophone Classical Music Award (2018) for Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 as well as the BBC Magazine Music Award (2017) for Mozart's Don Giovanni – amongst many others.