Dominick Tavella is an Americansound engineer. He has been sound mixing since 1976^[1] and specializes in balancing and recording the final soundtrack in its many formats for film, TV, and documentaries.^[2]D.A. Pennebaker was one of his college instructors who eventually became his mentor and later connected him to his first sound job. His first Union was as a transfer engineer, later are-recording engineer, at DuArt Film Laboratory inNew York City. There he mixed documentaries and low budget feature films.^[3] In 1988, Tavella joined Sound One where he built his reputation among clients such asPaul Schrader,Jim Jarmusch,Darren Aronofsky,Ric Burns, andKen Burns. His documentaries,Jazz andNew York were both nominated forEmmys for best sound. In 2003, he won anOscar forBest Sound Mixing and aBAFTA for best sound for the filmChicago.^[4] He has worked on more than 180 films since 1981.

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