The managing director and producer is C. Jared Sacks, who grew up in Boston.
Sacks was schooled as a professional horn player at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music[1] and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
[3] The record label started in 1990 and was called after the street where he lived at the time, the Kanaalstraat in Amsterdam.
[4] In 2006, Channel Classics began releasing records in Super Audio CD format by Chinese artists, including the China National Symphony Orchestra.
[5] Channel Classics Records released music from musicians like Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra,[6] Dejan Lazić,[7] Lavinia Meijer,[8] Rachel Podger[9] and Candida Thompson.