Jonathan Goldsmith (musician)

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Jonathan Goldsmith
Occupationsfilm and television composer, musician, record producer
Known for Nick Buzz, Art of Time Ensemble

Jonathan (Jon) Goldsmith is a Canadian musician, arranger, producer, and composer. Best known as a composer of film and television scores, he has also been associated with various projects as a musician, including Nick Buzz and the Art of Time Ensemble, [1] and production of albums by artists including Bruce Cockburn, Jane Siberry, Martin Tielli, Hugh Marsh, Bourbon Tabernacle Choir, and Sarah Slean. [2]

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Career

In 1992, Goldsmith, along with Hugh Marsh, Martin Tielli and Rob Piltch, provided backup for a track on the album Back to the Garden ; these four later formed the band Nick Buzz and produced two albums and an EP. [3] Goldsmith played piano in the group. [4] [5]

For his work as a composer Goldsmith won four Gemini Awards, for his work on Pit Pony , Dead Silence , Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making [6] and The Nativity , [7] a Canadian Screen Award for Titanic , [8] and a BAFTA Award for Sex Traffic . [9] He has also received nine other Gemini Award nominations, and four Genie Award nominations for Best Original Score.

His other film and television credits include Global Heresy , Such a Long Journey , Scorn , Away from Her , October 1970 , Take This Waltz , Rare Birds , Visiting Hours , Casino Jack , Compulsion , Lost Souls , Above and Beyond , Jewel , Cell 213 , High Life , Score: A Hockey Musical , Diplomatic Immunity, and Wiebo's War .

As a record producer, he has garnered three Juno Award nominations for Producer of the Year, for Bob & Doug McKenzie's comedy single "Take Off" in 1982, Bruce Cockburn's album Stealing Fire in 1984 [10] and Hugh Marsh's album Shaking the Pumpkin in 1989. [11]

At the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, he won the award for Best Original Score for his work on All My Puny Sorrows . [12] At the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, he won the inaugural award for Best Original Music in a Documentary for his work on To Kill a Tiger . [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Finding new Beat to notorious poem". Toronto Star , October 5, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Sarah Slean's sea change" . Maclean's , September 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ "A Quiet Evening at Home unique and adventurous". Caper Times , Sep 15, 2013 page 6
  4. ↑ H. Raymond Samuels II. (2005). Compendium of the Dominion: Canada's grassroots national newspaper : May 2003 to November 2004 editions. Agora Cosmopolitan. p. 115. ISBN   978-1-894934-14-5.
  5. ↑ "Nick Buzz: Nick Buzz". Vue Weekly, July 23, 2009
  6. ↑ "Composers gaze into the crystal ball". Playback , April 30, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Gemini Award Winners in Drama, Children/Youth, Comedy and Variety". Broadcaster, September 1, 2011.
  8. ↑ "‘Bomb Girls’ wins at Canadian Screen Awards". Global News, February 28, 2013.
  9. ↑ Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN   978-0-8108-6138-1. p. 636.
  10. ↑ "The Juno nominees are...". Toronto Star , December 5, 1984.
  11. ↑ "Juno Nominees". Toronto Star , February 2, 1989.
  12. ↑ "Night Raiders, Scarborough emerge victorious at 5th night of Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, April 8, 2022.
  13. ↑ Jackson Weaver, "To Kill a Tiger, We're All Gonna Die and BLK emerge as top winners at CSAs' opening night". CBC News, April 11, 2023.
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