2024 – 2027
GLENN MORLEY
President
Glenn Morley is a Toronto-based composer, conductor, and musical director with an extensive background in music for theatre, live events, concerts, television, and film media. With credits for more than 2,000 television episodes, he has won three Gemini Awards. His compositions are heard in numerous programs: The Nature of Things, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Freaky Stories, Man Alive, Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, and Twice in a Lifetime. Morley was the music supervisor for ABC/Disney’s The Music Man and Martin & Lewis (Emmy nomination), and garnered a Genie Award nomination for his score to Red Green’s Duct Tape Forever. He has produced and orchestrated the Gino Vanelli album Canto album, Alfie Zappacosta’s album Start Again, and songs for many others.
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He has functioned as composer/musical director for more than 80 stage productions, both in Canada and abroad, including the Stratford, Shaw, and Blythe Festivals. He created the score and sound design for the Sound and Light Show on Parliament Hill (2005-2009), and was musical director for the re-opening ceremonies for Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, and for The Canadian Songbook for the Luminato Festival. Morley has had his works performed by orchestras across Canada, and he frequently conducts/produces recordings for other composers. He has appeared frequently as an expert witness representing SOCAN members in Copyright Board television and cable tariff hearings.
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He is a founding member and past president of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.
CHERYL LINK
Vice-President
Cheryl Link has worked administratively and creatively in almost every aspect of the music business for more than 23 years. Beginning at FACTOR, and then holding positions at Page Music (music label/distributor), Lacquer Channel (music mastering), BMG Music Publishing, and Casablanca Media, she moved to peermusic in 2005. Cheryl has actively worked to promote the careers of songwriters and artists for her entire professional life. She’s also held positions on the Board of Directors of NDN Talent Collective (bridging the gap between the Indigenous arts community and the mainstream industry), The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, CARAS, and on the Programming Committee at the Canadian Music Publishers Association.
ED HENDERSON
Past-President
Ed Henderson is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, guitarist, musical director, music publisher and music producer in theatre, film, recording and on the concert stage. His compositions include all the music in his solo guitar CD Intimate ; Drowned Out, a 12-minute work for Vancouver InterCultural Orchestra and Laudate Singers (2011); Alight, a 12-minute solo guitar commission (CMC/Dance Centre); 11 National Anthem Orchestrations (VANOC at the 2010 Olympics); Star Song (Elektra Women’s Choir); Fuente Ovejuna, a theatrical score for the Stratford Festival; and Birdsong, a 45-minute piece for choir and tar [Iranian guitar] (Vancouver Chamber Choir and Amir Koushkani,). His TV productions include A World Christmas, Tell It on the Mountain and Chasing the Tango High (Bravo! TV), Race of the Century (CTV) plus about 20 documentaries (Vision, Knowledge, etc.).His album productions include the JUNO Award-winning El Camino Real for Ancient Cultures; The Miracle of Christmas and A World Christmas (Vancouver Chamber Choir); Feet First music from the stage show starring Jeff Hyslop; and JUNO-nominated, and West Coast Music Award-winning Endless for Silk Road. Henderson also plays with Chilliwack and Tangissimo, and as a session player in Vancouver. He performs solo guitar concerts, or with other musicians (including Leon Bibb, Ann Mortifee, and Paul Horn).Ed Henderson has served as a board member of the Vancouver Musicians’ Association, the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, and (SCGCTheatre Under The Stars. He’s an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and a member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC).
DR. JOHN BURGE
Secretary-Treasurer
MARC OUELLETTE
Ex officio
Marc Ouellette holds a music composition degree from McGill University and underwent further training with Hermann Max in Switzerland, and with Ennio Morricone in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Dividing his time between composing, producing and conducting in many musical genres, Ouellette has won a SOCAN Award and was nominated for Gemini and ADISQ Awards. Over the years, he has written music for several movies, children’s television programs and various independent circus numbers. As an arranger, producer and conductor, he has contributed to concerts and recordings featuring such diverse artists and groups as Isabelle Boulay, Pierre Lapointe, Roch Voisine, The Tea Party, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He has served as a board member of the Société professionnelle des auteurs et compositeurs du Québec (SPACQ) and of la Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada (SODRAC) in the early 2000’s and was respectively President of both of them. He also sat as board member of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) and served as President of the SOCAN Foundation from 2015-2018.
MARK JOWETT
Mark co-founded the Nettwerk Music Group in 1984. He has helped to oversee the company’s creative affairs, as well as the company’s overseas operations and Nettwerk’s publishing division. From its small origins in the 1980s, Nettwerk’s publishing division went on to represent Canadian artist as Sarah McLachlan and the Great Lake Swimmers, Ria Mae, Banners, and Mother Mother, as well as such international artists as Sinead O’Connor, Squeeze, MFDoom, and many others. In the last few years Nettwerk’s publishing arm has become a more boutique publisher, with the hope of serving a smaller group of writers very effectively.
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Beyond his responsibilities at Nettwerk, Mark is presently on the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA) Board and the head of its Programming Committee, and has been on the FACTOR Board and the head of its Programming Committee, as well as on the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) Advisory Committee.
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Mark’s love of music is not only reflected in having been in the industry for almost 40 years; he has continued to play in bands of one kind or another the whole time. He is now a cellist in the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, and is the VP of the Orchestra’s Board. He also plays in a Vancouver based quartet.
DIANE PINET
Diane Pinet is founder and president of Bloc-Notes Music Publishing since 1985. Her vast experience in publishing as well as various other aspects of the industry (booker, show producer, etc.) has given her a solid knowledge of the music business.She is currently on the board of directors of MPC, (Music Publishers Canada), NMC (Studio Bell) and several other associations. She was previously on the executive committee of CMW, and for many years on the Board of Directors of SOCAN, the SOCAN Foundation, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and most recently CMRRA.
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Often referred to by its writers as innovative, Bloc-Notes Music is known for its privileged ties in Canada and abroad. Bloc-Notes has won several Felix Awards (equivalent of Juno Awards) for Publisher of the Year, SOCAN awards and has received many gold and platinum records, and most recently in May 2021, the Music Publishers Canada’s Life Achievement Award. Its repertoire of writers has written hits for the likes of Céline Dion, Faith Hill, Garou, Marie Mai, SOMMM and many others. Since its beginnings, the company’s roster has constantly topped the charts.
LAURENCE LAFOND-BEAULNE
Laurence Lafond-Beaulne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and composer. She is a member of the duo Milk&Bone, recipient of a Juno and a Félix, has been nominated several times for the Polaris Prize, at the Adisq gala and the Canadian Screen Awards. She has scored for several films, series, documentaries, video games and three circus shows with Cirque du Soleil and Les 7 doigts. Her voice can be found on many Canadian artist’s albums and she cowrites for several other creators from here and abroad. Three albums and an Ep later, she is today devoting herself to the creation of a first solo project, entitled Soft Fabric, which will see the light of day in 2024.
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Laurence is an environmental activist and committed artist. She co-founded ACT (Artists Citizens on Tour), a movement that promotes eco-responsible practices in the entertainment industry.
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Laurence has observed and experienced several realities specific to the music business as a creator and as a businesswoman. With more than ten years of professional experience in the music business, she understands the subtleties and peculiarities of the french speaking and English speaking industry.
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By joining SOCAN, she wishes to unite her voice with those of others to convey important messages, defend the interests of its members with respect, openness and courage. She also wishes to raise the voices of artists from marginalized groups, help promote local creators and strengthen the value of art in our communities.
DARREN FUNG
A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner and International Film Music Critics Association Award nominee with over 100 composition credits to his name, Darren Fung (馮浩明) is a highly influential composer who is well respected in the film, television and concert worlds. His work on Niobe Thompson’s The Great Human Odyssey and Equus: Story of the Horse received widespread critical acclaim, winning the 2016 and 2019 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Non-Fiction Music, and has been presented in concert with orchestras across Canada. His diverse credits include re-envisioning Canada’s beloved Hockey Theme for TSN, the theme music for CTV’s Canada AM, numerous orchestral arrangements for artists and orchestras internationally, and film scores that have been heard at prestigious film festivals around the world, including Toronto, Cannes, and Sundance.
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In addition to composing, Darren serves on the Board of Directors of SOCAN and the Screen Composers Guild of Canada. He is also a Program Advisor for the Canadian Film Centre’s Slaight Music Residency and an external curator for the Canada’s National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund. In 2023 he was awarded a Canadian Screen Music Award for Distinguished Services to the Industry for his leadership and advocacy work. In a feeble attempt to counteract the sedimentary lifestyle of a composer, Darren wakes up way too early rowing with the Los Angeles Rowing Club, stays up way too late playing hockey, and often stares guiltily at the road bike he adopted during the pandemic. He is rather awful at all three endeavours.