Canadian male classical composers

The list Canadian male classical composers includes Howard Shore, Glenn Gould, Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna and Marjan Mozetich. The list consists of 107 members and 1 sublist.

Canadian male opera composers
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Glenn Gould

Canadian classical pianist

Overview: Glenn Herbert Gould (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an i ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1932

Date of death: 4 October 1982

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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Male classical pianists 1,919T

Canadian male pianists 129T

20th-century Canadian pianists 111T
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Howard Shore

Canadian film score composer (born 1946)

Overview: Howard Leslie Shore OC (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer and conductor noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the ...

Date of birth: 30 September 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Canadian contemporary classical composers 4T

21st-century Canadian male musicians 562T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 532T
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Mychael Danna

Canadian film score composer

Overview: Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film score composer. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music ...

Date of birth: 20 September 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Varèse Sarabande Records artists 158T

Canadian classical composers 162T

Animation composers 115T
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Peter Breiner

Slovak musician

Overview: Peter Breiner (born July 3, 1957, in Humenné, in former Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia) is a Slovak pianist, conductor, and composer.

Date of birth: 3 July 1957

Age: 67

Nationality: Slovakian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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21st-century male musicians 9,676T

Male conductors (music) 1,408T

Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada 80T
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Jeff Danna

Film score composer

Overview: Jeffrey W. Danna (born 1964) is a Canadian composer.

Date of birth: 1964

Age: 60

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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La-La Land Records artists 64T

Varèse Sarabande Records artists 158T

Male television composers 184T
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Claude Vivier

Canadian composer (1948–1983)

Overview: Claude Vivier (14 April 1948 – 7 March 1983) was a Canadian composer.

Date of birth: 14 April 1948

Date of death: 7 March 1983

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Gay poets 256T

Gay songwriters 202T

Canadian LGBT songwriters 36T
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Marjan Mozetich

Canadian composer

Overview: Marjan Mozetich (born 1948) is a Canadian composer who has written music for theatre, film and dance, as well as many symphonic works, chamber music, and solo pieces. He has written compulsory competition ...

Date of birth: 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian male musicians 285T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 310T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
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Robert Nathaniel Dett

Composer

Overview: Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American Black composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music p ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1882

Date of death: 2 October 1943

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century Canadian composers 225T

Musicians from Niagara Falls, New York 13T
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Tommy Reilly

Canadian classical harmonica player

Overview: Thomas Rundle Reilly MBE (August 21, 1919 – September 25, 2000) was a Canadian-born harmonica player, predominantly based in England. He began studying violin at eight and began playing harmonica at aged ...

Date of birth: 21 August 1919

Date of death: 25 September 2000

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Musicians from Guelph 25T

20th-century British male musicians 895T

20th-century English composers 475T
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Robert Talbot

Canadian conductor

Overview: Jean Robert Talbot (2 December 1893 – 24 August 1954) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years he was the conductor of the Société symphonique ...

Date of birth: 2 December 1893

Date of death: 24 August 1954

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian conductors (music) 91T

Male classical violinists 1,044T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 310T
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Colin McPhee

Canadian composer and musicologist

Overview: Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian composer and musicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and ...

Date of birth: 15 March 1900

Date of death: 7 January 1964

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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LGBT classical composers 103T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 310T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
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Harry Somers

Canadian composer

Overview: Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was one of the most influential and innovative contemporary Canadian composers of the past century. Possessing a charismatic attitude and ...

Date of birth: 11 September 1925

Date of death: 9 March 1999

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian composers 225T

Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year winners 22T

Male opera composers 1,844T
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Jānis Kalniņš

Latvian Canadian composer and conductor

Overview: Jānis Kalniņš (3 November 1904 in Pärnu – 30 November 2000 in Fredericton) was a Latvian Canadian composer and conductor.

Date of birth: 3 November 1904

Date of death: 30 November 2000

Age: 96 (age at death)

Nationality: Latvian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian male musicians 521T

20th-century male musicians 13,344T

Male conductors (music) 1,438T
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Kyle Bobby Dunn

Canadian composer and musician

Overview: Kyle Bobby Dunn (born February 27, 1986 in Ontario) is a Canadian composer, arranger, and live performer of modern compositional and guitar based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor ...

Date of birth: 27 February 1986

Age: 39

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,881T

21st-century American male musicians 5,003T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
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Henri Miro

Catalan-born Canadian composer (1879–1950)

Overview: Henri Enrique Miro (13 November 1879 – 19 July 1950) was a Canadian composer/arranger, conductor, pianist, and music critic of Catalan birth. He was a pioneering conductor for Canadian radio and ...

Date of birth: 13 November 1879

Date of death: 19 July 1950

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Male classical pianists 1,919T

Canadian male pianists 129T

Male conductors (music) 1,408T
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Timothy Sullivan (composer)

Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator

Overview: Timothy Richard Sullivan is a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he has been commissioned to write ...

Date of birth: 16 December 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian male musicians 285T

Male classical pianists 1,919T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
17.

Donald Heins

Canadian musician

Overview: Donald Heins (19 February 1878 – 1 January 1949) was a Canadian violinist, violist, conductor, organist, composer, and music educator of English birth. He notably founded the first professional orchestra ...

Date of birth: 19 February 1878

Date of death: 1 January 1949

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Male classical violinists 1,044T

Male conductors (music) 1,408T

Male organists 2,110T
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Owen Underhill

Canadian composer and conductor

Overview: Owen Underhill (born January 26, 1954) is a Canadian composer, flutist and conductor based in Vancouver. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He has been an active contributor ...

Date of birth: 26 January 1954

Age: 71

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Canadian conductors (music) 91T

21st-century Canadian conductors (music) 80T

21st-century Canadian male musicians 285T
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David MacIntyre (composer)

Canadian composer

Overview: David MacIntyre (born 1952) is a Canadian composer of opera, music theatre, choral, orchestral and chamber music, and site-specific works in dance and theatre, based in Vancouver. He is a professor of ...

Date of birth: 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian male musicians 285T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 310T

21st-century male musicians 9,676T
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Stephen Chatman

Canadian composer

Overview: Stephen Chatman CM (born 28 February 1950) is an American-born Canadian composer residing in Vancouver. His compositions have been performed across Canada and in the United States (Waffle 2018; Browne ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Canadian male musicians 285T

20th-century Canadian male musicians 310T

University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni 270T