Announcing the 2019 SOCAN Foundation Awards Recipients
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Emerging Audio-Visual Composers
1st Prize Winners
Isaias Garcia
In The Mind’s Eye
Ontario
Best Original Theme
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
Final Curtain
Quebec
Best Original Score-Fiction
Yao Wang
Brides of the Well
British-Columbia
Best Original Score-Fiction
Evan MacDonald
Canadian Immigration Matters
Quebec
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
2nd Prize Winners
Spencer Creaghan
Wife Me
Ontario
Best Original Theme
Virginia de Vasconcelos Kilbertus
Astronaut
Ontario
Best Original Score-Fiction
Brandon Liew
Starting Point
California
Best Original Score-Animated
Nick Grimshaw
Karo
Ontario
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
3rd Prize Winners
Joey Reda
A Vulture’s Story
Quebec
Best Original Theme
Evan MacDonald
Nothing Has Changed
Quebec
Best Original Score-Fiction
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
Orboros
Quebec
Best Original Score-Animated
Shaun Chasin
The Queen’s New Clothes
Los Angeles
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers
1st Prize Winners
Eugene Astapov
Hear My Voice
Ontario
The John Weinzweig Grand Prize
Luis Ramirez
Chido
Ontario
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Eugene Astapov
Hear My Voice
Ontario
Serge Garant
Stephanie Orlando
Scatterbrain
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Carmen Vanderveken
At Play : 3 short pieces
Holland
Hugh Le Caine
Roydon Tse
And the Ocean was Gone
Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
2nd Prize Winners
William Kraushaar
APOCALYPSIS 15
Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Nolan Hildebrand
HEATDEATH
Manitoba
Serge Garant
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
Isles
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Xavier Madore
Les loges de la suite
Montreal, Quebec
Hugh Le Caine
Françis Choiniere
A Clear Midnight
Quebec
Godfrey Ridout
3rd Prize Winners
Jared Miller
Ricochet – Reverb – Repeat
New York
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Corie Rose Soumah
Reflet
Quebec
Serge Garant
Liam Ritz
Drei Klavierstücke
Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Bekah Simms
Skinned & Skinscape
Ontario
Hugh Le Caine
Tristan Zaba
Emcroachment
Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
Young Composer Award Winners
Leo Purich
Variations and fugue on Mozart
Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Jules Bastin-Fontaine
Trio en hommage à Bruckner
Quebec
Serge Garant
Kai Kubota-Enright
Isaac
British Columbia
Hugh Le Caine
Leo Purish
“Flexible Fugue” for choir (SATB) and piano”
Quebec
Godfrey Ridout
Leonid Nediak
Fantasie No. 2
Ontario
Pierre Mercure (ex aequo)
Thomas Cardoso-Grant
artifact ii
Quebec
Pierre Mercure (ex aequo)
National Youth Orchestra of Canada Residency
Leo Purich
Quebec
Dan Jeremy Reyes
British Columbia
Stuart Beatch
Saskatchewan
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Canadian Songwriters (sponsored by Sirius XM Canada Inc.)
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Canadian Songwriters created in partnership with Sirius XM Canada Inc. celebrate emerging and talented songwriters in Canada. A total of $25,000 (five prizes of $5,000) were awarded to the finalists:
Mahmoud Ismail
Sigada
Ontario
Lou-Adriane Cassidy
Poussière
Quebec
Arianna Ohlsson
Heaven
Ontario
Emily Gifford
Your Hands
Ontario
Kasia Thorlakson
Love Song #1
Saskatchewan