jonathan kawchuk

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Composition

  • Voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards)

  • Released debut album "North" worldwide on Paper Bag Records

  • Over 4 million streams on Spotify

  • #1 Electronic record across Canada on campus radio charts

  • Featured on Apple Music, CBC, The Dowsers, and a Roel Funcken mix

  • Performed at MUTEK 2017

  • Recorded piece โ€œLake Waterโ€ with full orchestra - in production

  • Alumnus of the Banff Centre for the Arts

Film/Media

  • Scored feature film "Clara" starring Patrick J. Adams (Suits) & Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars), Serendipity Point . Premiered at TIFF.

  • Scored feature documentary film "Memento Mori", National Film Board of Canada

  • Provided music for Vogue Italia and Dior

  • Alumnus of the Berlinale Talents Lab

  • Alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre Slaight Music Residency

  • Scored Fast Horse (CBC), which won the Special Jury Award for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival

  • Represented by Evolution Music Partners

Sound

  • Assistant sound technician for the Philip Glass Ensemble (for the performance of Music in 12 Parts, London)

  • Worked on Nico Muhlyโ€™s album โ€œDronesโ€

  • Worked on Ben Frostโ€™s album โ€œA U R O R Aโ€

  • Placement at Greenhouse Studios (Reykjavik) under the supervision of Valgeir Sigurรฐsson

  • Studied wildlife recording under Chris Watson (Frozen Planet, Nova)

  • Mix engineer for โ€œEittโ€ by Haraldur รžrastarson, released on INNI

Education

  • Lectured on music and the natural world at Paul McCartneyโ€™s university: the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

  • Lectured on Film Music at UC Santa Cruz

  • University education in music composition (BA Honours, UK), technology, and production


Film/Media

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Visual

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