Curtis Schwartz
Producer • Engineer • Mixer •
Musical Collaborator
Four decades of recording, producing and mixing — built on long-term musical relationships.
Curtis Schwartz founded his studio in 1984 and continues to work there today, in West Sussex, England.
Curtis’s long-running collaboration with guitarist Steve Howe began in the early 1990s and has continued through Howe’s solo work and three consecutive albums by YES. His wider recording and production credits include Stacey Kent, Bee Gees, Cutting Crew, Go West and Sezen Aksu, including her landmark album Gülümse.
Alongside artist work, Curtis has written more than twenty albums for KPM / EMI Production Music, with compositions used across television, film, news and sport. He also mixed and helped shape the current ITV News theme package, heard daily across ITV’s national and regional news programmes.
Selected work
YES · Bee Gees · Go West · Stacey Kent · Asia · YolanDa Brown · Lush · Siouxsie & The Banshees · Cutting Crew · Sezen Aksu
Based in Sussex, within easy reach of London and Gatwick.
Sessions take place at Curtis Schwartz Studio in the Sussex countryside, 20 minutes from Gatwick Airport and 45 minutes by train from London.
To discuss whether the studio is the right fit for your project, please get in touch.
Recent work includes YES – Aurora
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Curtis Schwartz Studio, including stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos versions.
“Curtis is first and foremost a musician of extraordinary ability and taste. Everything he does is guided by the highest aesthetic sensibility.”
— Stacey Kent & Jim Tomlinson
Among Curtis’s recordings with Stacey Kent is “I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again,” selected by President Obama for his 2025 Favorite Music list.