Mintel Archive of Recordings

The Richard and Judith Mintel Archive of Recordings

  
  • About
    • Contents Summary
    • Thomas Wikman, Conductor and Keyboard Artist
    • Richard Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Judith Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Josephine ("Josey") Mintel, Musician and Archivist
      • Accidental Tourists: The United Nations Mission in Kosovo
      • "Ipak Može Zajedno!" - "Nevertheless, We Go Together!"
      • Rentier State: The Case of Kosovo
      • Young Serbs and Albanians Brought Together Through Art
      • The Blame Game: EU ducks Bosnian Migrant Crisis
    • Recording & Archiving Philosophy and Techniques
    • Radio Broadcaster Information
  • Archive
    • Collection One
    • Collection Two
    • Collection Three
    • Collection Four
    • Collection Five
    • Collection Six
    • Collection Seven
    • Collection Eight
    • Collection Nine
  • News & Reviews
    • Historical News/Reviews
    • Chicago's Music of the Baroque: The Wikman Years
  • Music Samples
    • WFMT Tributes to Richard Walter Mintel & Music of the Baroque
    • Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610) Claudio Monteverdi
    • Mozart Concertos and Sinfonias
    • Advent and Christmas Music for Choir
    • Ernest Bloch ~ Avodath HaKodesh (Sacred Service)
    • Handel's Semele Acts I, II & III
    • Gregorian Chant
    • Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem
    • Mozart Vocal Works
    • Mozart Symphonies
    • Franz Joseph Haydn
    • Handel's Saul Acts I, II, III
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Music of Vivaldi
    • George Frideric Handel~ Excerpts
    • Liturgical Music
    • Johannes Brahms
    • Georg Philipp Telemann
    • Music for Brass
    • Henry Purcell
    • Music for Organ
    • Music for Strings
    • Music for Woodwinds
    • Music for Orchestra
    • Grand Teton Music Festival
    • Richard Hunt's Studio Concerts
    • Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah
  • Resources
    • Featured Artists and Organizations
    • Commercial CDs
    • Links to the WFMT Studs Terkel Archive
  • Contact

Judith Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer

Judy Mintel is a recording engineer and producer in partnership with her husband, Richard Mintel. She married Dick on July 24, 1971, in Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago. They went on many adventures together, recording concerts and listening to music. Their daughter, Josephine Therese Mintel, was born on June 19, 1991.

After her husband’s death in December 2014, Judy focused on preserving and archiving the large number of classical music recordings that the couple had made together over their 43 years of marriage.

Judy was born in San Francisco and spent her formative years in the Panama Canal Zone and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 1970, Judy graduated from the University of Chicago College with an A.B. in American History, and in 1973, she received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. She was admitted to the Bar in Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. Judy became Associate General Counsel for the State Farm Insurance Companies in Bloomington, Illinois, where she worked for over 25 years.

In addition to her family and her legal work, Judy is passionate about classical music, radio, and higher education. Judy has been a member of the Board of Directors of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, The Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Chamber Players. She was a co-producer with her husband of the recordings of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque and a co-producer of that group’s radio broadcast series on WFMT, syndicated worldwide. Judy was also on the Board of the Borg Studio, which provided music lessons in Bloomington, Illinois, for young string players using the Suzuki Method. The Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming, was a regular summer vacation spot. Judy produced and hosted many hours of talk radio for broadcasts focusing on community service issues. She also provided financial and other support to classical musicians and higher education institutions. Judy is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

Recently, Judy has begun working with Syrian Youth Empowerment (“SYE”), a non-profit organization that helps Syrian and Iraqi high school students come to the United States to further their education. Judy’s SYE assignments have come from all over Syria, including Aleppo, Latakia, Tartus, Idlib, Damascus, Masyaf, and Al-Bayadiyah. Several were Syrian refugees; one was displaced by the war and lived in Mersin, Türkiye. Another was a Syrian attending the United World College-Atlantic in Liantwit Major, United Kingdom. Judy has also mentored students from Iraq: one from a Yazidi village in the Kurdish region near Sinjar and one from Baghdad. By the end of 2023, most of Judy’s SYE students had submitted college applications and were admitted to at least one college or university. Five have been admitted with full-ride scholarships (Tufts University, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, St. Lawrence University, and Berea College). These students have begun their studies in the U.S.

 

Richard and Judith Mintel -1995

In This Section

  • Contents Summary
  • Thomas Wikman, Conductor and Keyboard Artist
  • Richard Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
  • Judith Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
  • Josephine (“Josey”) Mintel, Musician and Archivist
  • Recording & Archiving Philosophy and Techniques
  • Radio Broadcaster Information
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