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IVA DELIC

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

6+ Years

Iva Delic is a Croatian-Canadian composer who writes scores for live-action, documentaries and animations. She works with acoustic and digital instruments and likes to collaborate on story-focused and/or character-driven projects. Recently, Iva has scored a short film "Nana," that was part of a TIFF special program Canada's Top Ten (http://nanashort.ca/) as well as an experimental documentary by Madonna Adib and a feature set to be released in early 2019.

KATHRYN HENZLER

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

6+ Years

Kathryn Henzler is a singer, composer, and recording engineer who also plays piano, viola, harmonica, guitar, koto (a traditional Japanese instrument), taiko and other Japanese percussion, and harp.

She holds a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, with an emphasis in Japanese from the University of Southern California (2013) and an M.Mus in Music Technology and Digital Media from University of Toronto (2017).

Kathryn specializes in music for short films and animation, having started composing for animation schools in 2009 and branching out to her first live action short film with "Test Stress" in 2014. She currently works with the film group of director Jenica Shivkumar out of Montreal, and two of their films together, "Something Beautiful" (2016) and "Follow That Melody" (2017), have premiered at the Digi60 Film Festival.

Aside from scoring for film, Kathryn writes art songs and music for theatre and performs as a guest member of the Kiri Koto Ensemble.

JULIJANA HAJDINJAK

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

3-5 Years

Julijana Hajdinjak is an award-winning Canadian-Croatian artist who actively works in all areas of the music industry.
Raised in Mississauga, Ontario, her extensive performance experience (most notably with The Rolling Stones and Cirque Du Soleil) and training distinguish her from the rest and allow for a unique expression through her music.

Throughout her career, Julijana has worked on projects that aired on television networks such as TVO, as well as having her work performed by Canadian ensembles from coast to coast. She has studied with Linda Catlin Smith, Glenn Buhr, Lynda Mieske, Bob Anderson and Cynthia Kaarto. With an Honours Bachelor of Music with distinction majoring in Contemporary Music: Composition degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, and private training in both piano and voice, Julijana’s thorough knowledge of both music theory and performance give her a unique appreciation for the nuances in music, allowing her to perform and create works in a variety of genres. As an emerging artist in various facets of the industry, Julijana Hajdinjak is a name to watch.

LORA BIDNER

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

3-5 Years

I'm a two-time SOCAN foundation award winning screen composer and singer-songwriter. I have a Masters of Music Technology, I've completely a residency at the Canadian Film Centre as one of their composers and I've composed for over 40 films including a feature length documentary for which I won one of my awards for. Because of my enthusiasm, drive and eclectic composing abilities, I make a strong contribution to every collaborative team I join. Check out my website to learn more about me and listen to my demo reels!

FRANKIE ABIGAIL PYE

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

3-5 Years

I have a Degree in Music Composition & Performance from the Music & Audio Institute of New Zealand. I have composed for several commercials and short films and I write stock music. I am looking to expand and work on new project.

CARON NIGHTINGALE

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

20+ Years

I have been working in the Film/TV/Media business for over 40 years from the ground up. I founded Nightingale Music Productions Inc which writes and produces music for film and television and we represent over 50 Indie Music Artists for licensing. We have won numerous awards for our music. In 2012, I opened the Canadian office of APM Music /Canada. We have more than 600,000 tracks for licensing and 25 of the top 30 grossing films last year used our music. We also provide original music. If you have any music needs at all, I am happy to talk to you.

DANIELA PINTO

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

2 Years

Daniela is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Film and Television program at Sheridan College, where she specialized in post audio. Combining this knowledge with her background as a classically-trained pianist led her to scoring many short documentaries, dramas, animations, and commercials throughout her degree, across many genres and styles. Now that she is entering the industry full-time, she is eager to lend her skills to productions with powerful, emotional, and entertaining stories.

EVELYNE DATL

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

15+ Years

Evelyne has been composing scores for award winning TV and Film for over 15 years. After receiving her A.R.C.T. in piano performance she studied electronic music at U of T electronic music lab.
She began improvising as an accompanist for Toronto Dance Theatre and later studied improvisation with the late Freddie Stone. Her experience performing as keyboard player/pianist in bands and ensembles with Canadian artists such as Shirley Eikhard, Alannah Myles, The Parachute Club, Hemispheres New Music Orchestra and numerous others has greatly informed her palette as a composer. She composes music for Documentary, Drama, Comedy, and Kids shows which have been broadcast on CBC, W Network, Treehouse, Discovery and others.

MICHELLE OSIS

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

10+ Years

Michelle Osis is a Toronto-based musician & composer for Film, TV and advertising.
She emigrated from Sydney Australia where she worked as a freelance screen composer, and has composed music on a number of commercials and films, including award-winning films, 'A Little Bit Behind' (dir Paul Slater), 'Let It Rain, and 'Bamboozled' (dir Matt Hardie). More recently, Michelle wrote the music for the feature films The Corporate Coup d'Etat (dir. Fred Peabody) Harpoon (dir. Rob Grant), True Fiction (dir. Braden Croft) She also scored the feature film Juggernaut (dir Daniel DiMarco) where she had the pleasure to work alongside Mark Korven, Neil Parfitt and Grammy award-winning musician Garry Kvistad. Michelle worked as an in-house composer at Eggplant Collective in Toronto and has worked on over 100 commercials. She was also selected as one of the residents at the Canadian Film Centres Slaight Music Residency in 2014 program chaired by Mychael Danna.

STEPH COPELAND

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

10+ Years

stephcopeland.com

Steph Copeland made her debut into scoring for film with the 2012 production of Antisocial (Black Fawn Films). By 2017, she scored 12 feature films (Bite, The Heretics, Bed of The Dead, Antisocial 2, Let Her Out +) commercials (PanAm Games, National Ballet School of Canada, BOSE, Mina Halal), web series, short films and trailers (Anne of Green Gables/Breakthrough Entertainment). Copeland is also a producer and songwriter working with popular artists in the GTA (Ria Mae, Tiger & Bloom). For a full list of film credits please visit: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5811897

Special Skills:
• Classically trained vocalist
• Royal Conservatory Advanced Rudiments Certificate
• Sound design + Music supervision

ERICA PROCUNIER

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

10+ Years

ericaprocunier.com

Erica Procunier is a Canadian composer for film and other media. Her credits include scores for over forty film, television, theatre, advertisement and video game productions. She was commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto International Film Festival to compose a live film score for the film DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver to celebrate Canada’s 150th. Erica recently scored the rowdy CBC comedy series Little Dog created by Joel Thomas Hynes. She scored the misfit comedy Don’t Talk To Irene starring Geena Davis as well as the anxiety ridden drama Mariner, which were both official selections at TIFF. Erica has received two SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Audio Visual Composers. She is an alumna composer of the Canadian Film Centre’s Slaight Family Music Lab and she holds a Masters of Music Composition from Western University.

MARIA MOLINARI

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

10+ Years

Award-winning composer of scores on productions which have aired internationally and have screened at celebrated festivals including Tribeca and the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival. Credits include feature film End of Days, Inc., the title theme for Motives and Murders: Cracking the Case (Investigation Discovery), TV series including Getting Along Famously (CBC), Freaky Stories (YTV) & Backyard Inventors (W Network), & commercials for Maple Leaf Foods and Dairy Farmers of Canada.
Maria’s music has been premiered by the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and National Ballet of Canada dancer/choreographer Stephanie Hutchison. Her virtuosic work Danza received its debut recording release by the Mathieu-Chua Duo on the Centrediscs Label in 2017. A graduate of the University of Southern California LA Film Scoring Program, Maria studied with icons Elmer Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird) Leonard Rosenman (Rebel Without a Cause) and Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3).

JANAL BECHTHOLD

Location:

Toronto

Position:

Composers

Experience:

10+ Years

Janal Bechthold is a composer for film, TV, games, and interactive media, having worked on numerous scores including horror noir feature Art of Obsession, documentary Gods In Shackles, videogame The Rival Books of Aster, and interactive graphic novels, Dystopia 2153 and 80 Degrees North. Her music for television has been broadcast on CBC/SRC-Radio Canada, CTV, TSN, Discovery, and TV5 international among others! She is the recipient of the 2016 Chris Dedrick Music Fund Award for Live Musicians in Media Soundtracks, the founder of Toronto Women Composers, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.

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