John Storyk, a registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of Walters-Storyk Design Group. Soon to celebrate his 50th anniversary as an innovative recording studio designer, he began his career in 1968 with Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix in New York City. That studio continues to serve as a prolific catalyst for Gold & Platinum hits for stars ranging from Adele to Daft Punk and Ed Sheeran. Storyk and his associates have provided design, system integration, and construction supervision services for almost 4000 professional audio recording and video production/post-production studios, performance venues, sports, houses of worship and educational facilities. is an eleven-time winner of the prestigious TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design. Including, most recently, three consecutive wins: the 30th Annual for the Berklee College of Music, 160 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA.; The 31st Annual ; and the 32nd Annual Boston Symphony Orchestra Control Room. To date thirty WSDG studio design projects, have competed for TEC Awards since the event debuted in 1985. Beijing’s 55TEC Studios, ’s 2018 nominee opened in May 2017 and charted nearly a dozen China Top-ten hits in its first ten months including six #1’s. maintains a staff of fifty designers and engineers, and offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, Basel, Berlin, Beijing, Barcelona, Mexico City, Mumbai, and St. Petersburg.
John Storyk’s credits range from large recording facilities in Kuala Lumpur to NY’s Jazz at Lincoln Center performance complex, Le Poisson Rouge and 54 Below, to studios in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and China. He designed MJH Studios in Cranbury, NJ, scheduled to open in early 2017. His 2011 Jungle City, a $6+ million New York City‘Destination Studio’ was featured in the NY Times and Vanity Fair. WSDG Broadcast facility design credits include architecture and/or audio-acoustic planning and design for CBS, WNET, Food Network, TSR Broadcasting, Geneva; UPC Broadcasting, Amsterdam; VGTRK – Public Broadcasting/Moscow; and, in partnership with ARTEC Consultants, the audio studios at Jazz at Lincoln Center, now operating as XM Broadcasting facilities. has also designed distance-learning facilities for Hunter College, the experimental Ross School in East Hampton, NY, the $6.8 million NYU James L. Dolan Recording/Teaching/Research Complex, and the recently completed Berklee Valencia and the Berklee Boston, 160 Massachusetts Avenue Music Education/Production Complex completed in 2014. Committed to the support of pro audio education, Storyk also serves as an adjunct professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In January, 2015, Berklee 160 Mass. Ave. won the 2015 TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design, marking 's 9th TEC Award in this category. Current educational projects include major assignments for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - RPI, Concordia U, Drexel U and ICESI University in Cali, Colombia. John Storyk is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Audio Engineering Society. He is a frequent contributor to AES Convention Panels and Papers. A recipient of the AES Fellowship Award, he lectures at schools around the U.S. and has established courses in acoustics at Yale University, Columbia, NYU, Ex’Pression College, SF; Full Sail Center, Orlando; and Berklee College of Music.
Storyk is married to his business and life partner Beth Walters. The couple raised two sons in Highland, New York and now live in Highland and the Yucatán Coast in Mexico.
