HES has been a sponsor of LIPA since its opening in 1996. Through the years, a wide variety of HES' products has been installed into the Paul McCartney Auditorium, named in honor of the performing arts school's famous founder and benefactor. Four years ago, HES founder and chairman, Lowell Fowler, presented LIPA with a Wholehog II console, which was installed in the school's High End Systems Studio. This will now be upgraded with the Wholehog III this summer, whose installation will be overseen by LIPA production manager Mike Brown and HES Europe's Phil Mercer.
LIPA's Ffounding principal and CEO, Mark Featherstone-Witty, was delighted by the news, and told us: "This is brilliant. High End's involvement with LIPA draws a lot of interest among students who are interested in studying either a degree in Theatre and Performance Technology or in Theatre and Performance Design. It is very important to us and to them to provide the opportunity to train on the very latest start-of-the-art equipment, so they are ready to tackle any type of lighting project in their professional careers."
(Lee Baldock)
