Announcing the 2018 SOCAN Foundation Awards Recipients
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Emerging Audio-Visual Composers (Sponsored by RBC)
1st Place Winners
Stephanie Kowal
Year Zero
Los Angeles, California
Best Original Theme
Spencer Creaghan
The Ballad
Toronto, Ontario
Best Original Score-Fiction
Stephanie Hamelin Tomala
Area 51
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Animated
Alexandro Manzon
Can You See (On Yonder Tree)?
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
2nd Place Winners
Lora Bidner
Beauty within the Nothing
Toronto, Ontario
Best Original Theme
Stephanie Hamelin Tomala
What’s Within
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Fiction
Alexandro Manzon
Bottle
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Animated
Spencer Creaghan
Sororis
Toronto, Ontario
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
3rd Place Winners
Sahlia Wong
Le Léon
Windsor, Ontario
Best Original Theme
Phillipe Stebbings
Trapped
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Fiction
Marc-Antoine Gagnon
Destiny
Montreal, Quebec
Best Original Score-Animated
Andrew Bennet
Citizen
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Best Original Score-Non Fiction
SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers
1st Prize Winners
Michael Kim-Sheng
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Montreal, Quebec
The John Weinzweig Grand Prize
Charles-Philippe Tremblay-Bégin
Utopia or Oblivion
Montreal, Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Haotian Yu
Ritual I
Ottawa, Ontario
Serge Garant
Maxwell Lucas
Ovum/Azoth
Toronto, Ontario
Pierre Mercure
Michael Kim-Sheng
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Montreal, Quebec
Hugh Le Caine
Maria Atallah
Mar Maroun
Ottawa, Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
2nd Prize Winners
Hunter Coblentz
Cello & Orchestra
London, UK
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
On Light and Birds
Toronto, Ontario
Serge Garant
Brandon Chow
Regnvejr I Skoven
Victoria, British Columbia
Pierre Mercure
Xavier Ménard
Chasses Inouïes
Montreal, Quebec
Hugh Le Caine
Andrew Noseworthy
One Stalk, One Arrow, No Stalk, No Arrow.
St. John’s, Newfoundland
Godfrey Ridout
3rd Prize Winners
Philippe Macnab-Seguin
Seizing to be Ceased
Montreal, Quebec
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Luke Nickel
String Quartet #1
Bristol, UK
Serge Garant
Brian Topp
Ljós for Soprano Sax and Live-Electronics
Vancouver, British Columbia
Pierre Mercure
Matthew Horrigan
taste / oh yeah, i guess
Vancouver, British Columbia
Hugh Le Caine
Gavin Fraser
Into My Own
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Godfrey Ridout
Young Composer Award Winners
David Ko
Let’s Talk About Heritage
Vancouver, British Columbia
Sir Ernest Macmillan
Adam Zolty
Three Expressions for Piano Septet
Vancouver, British Columbia
Serge Garant
Haotian Yu
ancient lament
Ottawa, Ontario
Godfrey Ridout
Haotian Yu
fragments after Bach
Ottawa, Ontario
Pierre Mercure
National Youth Orchestra of Canada Residency
Stephanie Orlando
Ontario
Jared Miller
USA
William Kuo
British Columbia
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:
Mary Bryton Nahwegahbow
Clegg Street
Ontario
Kate Stevens
It’s Real
Alberta
Braden Lamoureux
Into The Light
Nova Scotia
Christian Hudson
Four Leaf Clover
Ontario
William Dolan
Cadillac
British Columbia