Reel Music
The REEL MUSIC 2007 Jury is Announced
The application date for REEL MUSIC has now closed. The jury members will select seven finalists to compose original music for one of two contrasting film clips. Finalists will be announced in December 2006.
Don has performed professionally on violin, saxophone and voice in styles from classical to folk, pop and jazz and during his performance career he has toured through Europe, the South Pacific, the United States and Canada. Don is a member of the Guild of Canadian Film Composers and his composition credits include music for theatre, dance, published vocal arrangements and forays into everything from jazz and electronica to avante garde classical music. He has scored music for films featured at all the major film festivals and in 2000 his score for Cannes Film Festival winner "Shoes Off" was recognized as "one of the most compelling original scores attached to any Canadian film, ever......" (Vancouver Province). In the summer of 2006 Don completed the score for the Feature Film "Fido" with Carrie Anne Moss (The Matrix) and Billy Connely (The Last Samurai). The score included 60 minutes of music recorded in Prague with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Montreal-based composer Justin Mariner has been commissioned to write pieces for numerous groups including the Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal and the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. His works have been recognized in competitions such as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Canadian Composers Competition, the International Gaudeamus Music Week, the CBC National Competition for Young Composers, and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra's Reel Music project (2005) in which he was awarded first place in the drama category.
Mariner holds a Bachelor's degree from Dalhousie University and a Master's and Doctorate from McGill. He is currently Assistant Professor at McGill and an administrator for Ensemble Kore. Mariner's recent works synthesize baroque and popular influences with a contemporary conception of form and motion. He recently scored Jackie May's short film Couldn't Be Happier, which was selected for the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.
Rooted in ten years of studies in saxophone, Giuseppe Pietraroia's formal training in music culminated in 1992, when he received a Master's degree in orchestral conducting from McGill University, as a student of Timothy Vernon.
The 2006-07 season marks Giuseppe's fourth as Conductor-in-Residence for both Pacific Opera and the Victoria Symphony.
Tobin has been commissioned by CBC Radio 2, Festival Vancouver, the BC
Choral Federation, Celebration 2010 for the Olympic bid, the XV
Commonwealth Games, the Kathaumixw Choral Festival, and many others. He
has written music for programs aired on all the major Canadian
television stations and networks, and his choral music has premiered in
Prague, Venezuela, Hiroshima, Sweden, and Canada. His jazz score for A
Streetcar Named Desire will be heard here at the Royal Theatre later
this month. He has won awards for music in theatre and in documentary
film, and was recently named one of Vancouver Island's "Top 40 Under
40". Upcoming commissions as a Composer-In-Residence with the Victoria
Symphony include Serenade for Strings premiering in January 2007,
followed by his first piano concerto. Other current orchestral
commissions include his second symphony (to be premiered by the
Victoria Symphony), and a work for the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.
Barbara Willis Sweete graduated from Western University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree and was a founding partner of Rhombus Media in 1979. She has received an honorary degree from York University as well as numerous awards from the Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Yorkton and Banff film festivals. Considered to be one of Canadas pre-eminent directors of dance and music films she made her feature debut with the film, Perfect Pie.
