Announcing the 2020 SOCAN Foundation Awards Recipients

SOCAN Foundation Awards for Emerging Screen Composers

Grand Prize Winner

Alexandro Manzon

La Camicia (The Shirt)
Quebec

Grand Prize

1st Prize Winners

Spencer Creaghan

Dog Cried Wolf
Ontario

Best Original Theme

Iva Delic

Dream Cream
Ontario

Best Original Score — Animated

Dillon Baldassero

Zone Rouge
Ontario

Best Original Score — Non-Fiction

Spencer Creaghan

The House Abandon
Ontario

Best Original Score — Fiction

2nd Prize Winners

Simon Piché-Castonguay

Germain s’éteint
Quebec

Best Original Theme

Benjamin Goldman

Teddy Bear Protection
Quebec

Best Original Score — Animated
(ex æquo)

Joey Reda

Cycle
Quebec

Best Original Score — Animated
(ex æquo)

Claudie Bertounesque

Mélissa et le Jackalope
Quebec

Best Original Score — Non-Fiction
(ex æquo)

Camille Poliquin

Ainsi soient-elles
Quebec

Best Original Score — Non-Fiction
(ex æquo)

Simon Piché-Castonguay

Take me to a nice place
Quebec

Best Original Score — Fiction

SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers

Grand Prize Winner

Félix-Antoine Coutu

Têtard, tête à tête
Quebec

Grand Prize

1st Prize Winners

Christina Volpini

upon unknown arts
Ontario

Chamber Ensemble

Félix-Antoine Coutu

Têtard, tête à tête
Quebec

Choral

Simon Coovi-Sirois

Trois perspectives sur une entropie positive
Quebec

Electroacoustic

Liam Gibson

Monstera Deliciosa
British Columbia

Large Ensemble

Liam Ritz

TURN:SPIN
Ontario

Solo and Duet

2nd Prize Winners

Liam Ritz

Colour Palette #1: images of Gros Morne
Ontario

Chamber Ensemble

Scott Ross-Molyneux

Seaside
Alberta

Choral

Carmen Vanderveken

Danse tribale
Zuid Holland

Electroacoustic

Bekah Simms

Bestiary I & II
Ontario

Large Ensemble

Roydon Tse

Release
Ontario

Solo and Duet

3rd Prize Winners

Matthew Knights

Distorted Reality; Imaginatively Amended
Ontario

Chamber Ensemble

Arie Verheul van de Ven

I Crossed the Border from Niagara Falls to Buffalo by Foot
Ontario

Choral

Brooklynn Whidden

Hilarious
Ontario

Electroacoustic

Christina Volpini

as within, so without
Ontario

Large Ensemble

Francis Battah

Six Préludes
Quebec

Solo and Duet

Under 21 Winners

Haotian Yu

Ritual II
Ontario

Chamber Ensemble

Ian Chan

Wander
Ontario

Choral

Seth Gordon

Cloudbusting
Ontario

Electroacoustic

Leo Purich

L’Histoire de Moz, Musical Tale for Orchestra and Narrator
Quebec

Large Ensemble

Jules Bastin-Fontaine

…cette route cette vallée désormais/tu ne les verras plus de sa présence illuminées…
Quebec

Solo and Duet