Toronto, May 24, 2017 – The Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) and the Ontario Arts Foundation are delighted to announce Matthew Van Driel is the 2017 recipient of the Christopher Dedrick Award for Live Musicians in Media Soundtracks.
Matthew Van Driel is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor. As a film composer, he has written scores for numerous short films from countries worldwide including Canada, the USA, Vietnam and India. He has also been composing and arranging chamber and concert works which have had premiers in both Canada and Hong Kong.
“As an emerging composer, using live musicians in a scoring session can seem like a distant dream,” said Matthew Van Driel. “As this year’s recipient of the Christopher Dedrick Award, I’m tremendously enthusiastic to have the opportunity to do so. I thank the Screen Composers Guild of Canada for facilitating this award. I couldn’t be more excited to apply it in one of my future scores. I always aspire to accentuate the director’s vision to the best of my abilities, and through this fund, I know that I will.”
The Christopher Dedrick Award was established in memory of Christopher Dedrick, an award-winning screen composer and past-president of the SCGC, to encourage and support the hiring and use of live musicians in the production of media music soundtracks. This annual cash prize of $1,200 is awarded to a SCGC professional member in good standing, and is adjudicated by a Selection Committee comprised of SCGC peers. The Award is administered by the SCGC on behalf of the Ontario Arts Foundation.
For information, please contact:
Tonya Dedrick, Managing Director
Screen Composers Guild of Canada
Tel: (416) 410-5076
tkdedrick@screencomposers.ca
Alan Walker, Executive Director
Ontario Arts Foundation
Tel: (416) 969-7413
awalker@arts.on.ca
The Ontario Arts Foundation (OAF) is passionately committed to building long-term support for the arts in Ontario. In 2015-2016, the OAF paid over $3.0 million in endowment income and $300,000 in awards and scholarships.
The Screen Composers Guild of Canada (SCGC) is a a trade association certified under the Canadian Federal Status of the Artist Act, and represents all professional Anglophone composers and music producers for film, television , video games, mobile and all other screen media. The SCGC promotes the status and rights of screen composers through professional development, sharing information, advocacy on issues such as creator’s rights and the value of screen music. The SCGC is a member of the Music Creators Canadian and North American Alliances.
About Christopher Dedrick
Chris Dedrick was a music producer, arranger, and a classical and soundtrack composer. He worked with directors Guy Maddin and Don McKellar, winning a Genie Award for Maddin’s The Saddest Music in the World. In 1997 Dedrick won a Gemini Award for his work on the television series Road to Avonlea. Chris was nominated a total of 16 times for Gemini awards, winning a total of four, the others for Million Dollar Babies, Shipwreck on the Skeleton Coast and The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure.
Full Biography
www.chrisdedrick.com
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