John Mills-Cockell's mother passed away when he was six months old.
18 Facts About John Mills-Cockell
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John Mills-Cockell was introduced to music at the age of 5, when his father, a devoted amateur musician and choir singer, encouraged him to join a church choir.
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John Mills-Cockell studied music at the University of Toronto from 1963 to 1967.
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John Mills-Cockell studied piano under John Coveart, and composition under Dr Samuel Dolin, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from 1964 to 1968, where he taught electronic music.
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John Mills-Cockell undertook graduate studies under Gustav Ciamaga at the University of Toronto's Electronic Music Studio in 1967 and 1968.
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In Toronto in the fall of 1967, John Mills-Cockell joined forces with light sculptor Michael Hayden, poet Blake Parker, and architect Dik Zander to form Intersystems, an arts collective and multimedia performance group.
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The first album resulted in a 1971 commission, from the respected Toronto Repertory Orchestra, of Stringspace, which John Mills-Cockell composed for Syrinx, the TRO, and additional percussion.
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John Mills-Cockell released a cassette of Stella in Black and White, a collaboration with poet Blake Parker, in 1994.
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In 2004, John Mills-Cockell released on CD his seven-movement Concerto of Deliverance, an "extended tone poem with words," with libretto by Blake Parker.
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John Mills-Cockell has been active throughout his career in musicals, and has composed over 100 scores for plays in theatres across Canada.
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John Mills-Cockell is currently working on bringing Savitri and Sam, a full-length opera he composed, with libretto by Ken Gass, to the stage.
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John Mills-Cockell is working on his latest opera, Kid Catastrophe, with librettist France Ducasse.
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John Mills-Cockell has composed scores for such feature films as The Clown Murders, Deadly Harvest, Terror Train, Humongous, and Striker's Mountain.
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John Mills-Cockell has been active as a composer for short film and television, and has created original scores for such productions as Packing Up, Reverse, The Italians, Stationary Ark, and The Little Vampire.
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John Mills-Cockell has scored dozens of radio productions for the CBC.
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John Mills-Cockell made several trips to Trumansburg to meet with Dr Moog, and ultimately purchased a Moog Mark II synthesizer, which he proceeded to employ in Intersystems' performances:.
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John Mills-Cockell soldiered on, replacing the Moog with an ARP 2500 in late 1971.
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John Mills-Cockell's work has been the subject of numerous awards and grants.