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

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

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.)

SiriusXM

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