Music News - Recording Pioneer Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Eldred Stebbing accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award
14 May 2002 - 0 Comments
Even at 80 years old, Eldred Stebbing's ears are still considered among the finest in the business.
It's an attribute that has kept this record industry pioneer at the forefront of this profession for more than 50 years.
Eldred Stebbing has been presented with this year's Lifetime Achievement Award by Prime Minister Helen Clark at the 2002 New Zealand Music Awards dinner on Friday 10 May.
Head of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, Terence O'Neill-Joyce speaks fondly of a man who began recording in the lounge of his family home in Avondale at the beginning of the second world war.
"Eldred has amassed many local and international milestones on the way to building the Stebbing Recording Centre into Australasia's most comprehensive recording centre," he said.
The famous Stebbing studio on Herne Bay's Jervois Road in central Auckland was purpose-built in the family home basement. It is now recognised as a world class facility for both the music and advertising industries.
Eldred's personal contribution to the industry has been immense, spotting some of New Zealand's most distinguished artists. Names like Ray Columbus, The Howard Morrison Quartet, Th' Dudes and Pasty Riggir all recorded at the Stebbing studio.
As CEO of the company Eldred still maintains an active role in research and development. Technically he is still as sharp as the day he fitted his first radio valve.
His latest initiative has just seen the first DVD roll of the production line at the compnay's manufacturing plant - a first for New Zealand.
As always, Eldred Stebbing attributes the success of the business to the strengths of the family. His wife Margaret and sons Robert and Vaughan are the other linchpins in a business that continues to keep New Zealand at the forefront of the industry.
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