Announcing the 2021 SOCAN Foundation Awards Recipients

SOCAN Foundation Awards for Emerging Screen Composers

Grand Prize Winner

Dillon Baldassero

The Family (Escape) and Girl

Ontario

 

Grand Prize

1st Place Winners

Spencer Creaghan

Letters To Satan Clause
Ontario
Best Original Theme
(opening or closing)

Andrés Galindo Arteaga

In Despair 
Ontario
Best Original Score — Non-Fiction

Virginia de Vasconcelos Kilbertus

Endlings: Season 2
Ontario
Best Original Score — Fiction

Medhat Hanbali

Trashy Friends
Québec

Best Original Score — Animated

2nd Place Winners

Laura Bidner

Lora Bidner

Elephant Sheets
Ontario
Best Original Theme
(opening or closing)

Mao Tao Yu

music for Wrought
Ontario
Best Original Score —
Non-Fiction

Iva Delic

I Can’t Said the Ant
Ontario
Best Original Score — Fiction

Joey Reda

Drought
Québec
Best Original Score — Animated

SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers

Grand Prize Winner

Francis Battah

Toccata no 2
Québec
Grand Prize

1st Prize Winners

Nicholas Denton-Protsack

Iterations on a Theme by Antonio Salieri 
British Columbia
Large Ensemble

Francis Battah

Codes, claves, accidents
Québec
Chamber Ensemble

Nicholas Denton-Protsack

Into this Fracturing Land
British Columbia
Solo & Duets

Katerina Gimon

Shadow/Light
British Columbia
Choral

ijo (Dong Ho You)

Look Straight, Don’t See
Ontario
Electroacoustic

2nd Prize Winners

Sami Seif

Harp Concerto
Ontario
Large Ensemble

Haotian Yu

Ritual IIIb
Ontario
Chamber Ensemble

James Lowrie

Chainsmoking;Index
Ontario
Solo & Duets

Stephanie Orlando

kyrie
Ontario
Choral

Dominic Jasmin

Ici
Québec
Electroacoustic

3rd Prize Winners

Liam Ritz

Chamber Dances
Ontario
Large Ensemble

Sami Seif

Orientalism
Ontario
Chamber Ensemble

Liam Ritz

Three Inventions
Ontario
Solo & Duets

Benjamin Sigerson

Stratocumulus
British Columbia
Choral

Thomas Quirion

Consequential
Québec
Electroacoustic

Young Composer Award Winners

Henry From

Petawawa Gorges
British Columbia
Large Ensemble

Michael Selvaggi

Midwinter Fractures
Ontario
Chamber Ensemble

Henry From

Chorale and Variations
British Columbia
Solo & Duets

Benjamin Sigerson

Stratocumulus
British Columbia
Choral

Michael Selvaggi

Marine Transmutations
Ontario
Electroacoustic

National Youth orchestra of canada residency

Katerina Gimon

Ice Forms
British Columbia
Large Ensemble

Stephanie Orlando

riptide
Ontario
Large Ensemble

Liam Ritz

Chamber Dances
Ontario
Large Ensemble