Hazel Burns is a recording engineer and producer specializing in acoustic music, with more than fifteen years of teaching experience. She has spent the last decade as an Associate Professor of Music Production at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, a Berklee International Network institution, and continues to record and mix actively, with an extensive and diverse discography.

Her career spans a wide range of contexts, including roles as staff Recording Engineer at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Production Coordinator and Senior Recording Engineer at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Post Sound Operator at CTV, where she mixed Discovery Channel Canada’s Mighty Ships, Mighty Planes, Nerve Centre, and Alien Mysteries, earning a Canadian Screen Award nomination.

An active member of the Audio Engineering Society, she founded Ecuador’s first AES chapter, has judged student recording competitions at AES New York, and regularly presents clinics and talks. She holds a master’s degree in Sound Recording from McGill University and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where her research focuses on collaboration and communication between classical musicians and sound engineers.