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Enrique Gonzalez Müller

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Associate Professor

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Having graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1999, Enrique Gonzalez Müller embarked on a career as a music producer and engineer at the renowned Plant Studios. His talent led him to collaborate with influential artists such as Joan Baez, the Dave Matthews Band, members of Metallica, Joe Satriani, MC Hammer, DJ Quik, Too $hort, Stewart Copeland, and Les Claypool, to name a few. In his native Venezuela, Gonzalez Müller has produced numerous chart-topping albums for acclaimed bands including Caramelos de Cianuro, Desorden Público, and Viniloversus. His partnership with Los Amigos Invisibles resulted in the band's first Latin Grammy Award, for their album Commercial in 2009, followed by a Grammy nomination in 2018 and a second Latin Grammy win in 2020. Internationally, he made significant contributions in Switzerland, composing for the contemporary dance company Prototype Status and in Italy, by producing, recording, arranging, and mixing albums for renowned artists such as L’Aura and Elisa. His collaboration with Elisa, Tina Turner, and UNICEF on the hit duet "Teach Me Again," reached the number one position on the charts. In the United States, Gonzalez Müller continued collaborating with iconic names including Nine Inch Nails, Victor Wooten, Kronos Quartet, Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica) and Wynton Marsalis.

In 2010, Gonzalez Müller shifted his focus to education. He began as a volunteer faculty member for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison in California. In 2012, he took on a full-time position as a faculty member in the Music Production and Engineering Department at Berklee College of Music. Recognized for his innovative approach to education, Gonzalez Müller received Berklee's Distinguished Faculty Award in 2015, and in 2018 he became the program director of Berklee Online's music production graduate program. In 2021, he founded the Pedagogy Arts Collective at Berklee, an initiative that fosters holistic excellence in the science and art of education across diverse disciplines, showcasing his commitment to elevating educational standards on a global scale.

Career Highlights
  • Latin Grammy–winning producer for categories Mejor Canción Alternativa (2020) and Best Rock/Alternative (2009)
  • Grammy-nominated producer for El Paradise by Los Amigos Invisibles for the category Latin Urban, Pop Rock (2018)
  • Production, engineering, and arranging credits with artists including the Kronos Quartet, Dave Matthews Band, Too $hort, Nine Inch Nails, members of Metallica, Joan Baez, Zucchero, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Tina Turner, as well as many independent artists in Italy, Venezuela, and the U.S.
  • Ex-staff engineer for the Plant Recording Studios (Sausalito, California) and Tiny Telephone Studios (San Francisco, California)
  • Member of the education committee of the San Francisco chapter of the Grammys
  • Volunteer faculty for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison in California
  • Program director for Berklee Online's Master of Music in music production program 
Awards
  • Latin Grammy Award in the best Mejor Canción Alternativa category for "Tócamela" by Los Amigos Invisibles’ (2020)
  • Latin Grammy Award in the Best Rock/Alternative category for producing Commercial by Los Amigos Invisibles (2009)
  • Recipient of Berklee College of Music's Distinguished Faculty Award (2015)
  • UPCEA Innovative and Creative Programming Award for Producción Musical y su Efecto en la Composición (2016)
Education
  • B.M., Berklee College of Music
In Their Own Words

“As far back as I can remember I always knew I would end up doing something music related, but it wasn't until I discovered music production and engineering that I truly found my voice. It fits like a glove since it blends a highly creative and philosophical endeavor with a highly precise, tangible, and technical craft, and the convergence of those elements go totally in line with my personality and passions. I’m drawn to understanding people, emotions, and things to figure out how to use and combine elements for an emotional outcome. That’s what I do in this profession: I communicate with musicians as human beings, try to really understand the emotional connection that moved them to make music, and figure out how to capture and bring out 110 percent of their message (and in doing so, also my own).”

“I encourage my students to think outside common-denominator preconceptions of ‘success,’ ‘failure,’ ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ and ‘true.’ I’m a bit of an idealist in that I [disagree] with the notion that, to go into this business, you can only seriously do so in a big entertainment city like New York, L.A., or Nashville. Personally, I feel I’ve enjoyed great success while marching to my own (pretty eclectic) drumbeat. And by ‘success’ I mean putting in the work to find out who you are, what honestly makes you tick and what makes you unique, then taking a healthy and proactive approach towards achieving a lifestyle that keeps you inspired and healthy in a sustainable way. In this way, I hope I can be a role model for my students and inspire original ways of listening, making, and capturing music.”

“I want my students to feel they’re in an environment where their work and demeanor will be held up to the standards of professionalism and real-life communication. At the same time, I strive to create a classroom environment that feels safe, respectful, and cool for anyone to be whoever they are.”

“Teaching and producing share many similarities in that we are trying to convey the intangible and the ethereal in ways that are palpable and usable. In music production and engineering, we work to capture the emotion in someone’s music and distill it into a tangible recording. When I teach, I’m trying to boil down all my professional and life experiences into messages that everyone can understand and hopefully find useful to further their explorations. And while the topics we discuss can get pretty technical, I always try to give my students a reason, an emotional destination to the techniques and choices we are discussing in class. Every decision we make means something and has definite impact, so we might as well strive to make thoughtful choices and really mean what we do.”

“One of my most favorite things to do is travel. If I don’t do it often, I just start to suffocate. Traveling, as I see it, is putting ourselves out there in new situations and cultures, giving us the opportunity to compare and challenge our own understanding of what is true in relationship to others’ versions of truth. It gives us the chance to learn ways that are different—maybe even better—and we’d be missing out on so much of that hipness if we never make a real proactive effort to question what we think we know, be open to all learning opportunities, and get out of our mind cubicles.”