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