John Joseph Welsman was born on 1955 and is a Canadian composer known for his work in film and television.
12 Facts About John Welsman
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John Welsman has written film and television scores for production companies in both Canada and the United States.
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John Welsman has been nominated for the Gemini Award ten times, winning four times for his work on the television series Road to Avonlea, and once for the short film 'The Bellringer'.
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John Welsman is the grandson of conductor Frank Welsman and the brother of jazz singer Carol Welsman.
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John Welsman studied piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, and attended the University of Western Ontario in 1974 and 1975.
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John Welsman studied music composition with Samuel Dolin and Milan Kymlicka.
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John Welsman conducted and created arrangements for the string orchestra which recorded on Loreena McKennitt's 1994 album The Mask and Mirror.
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Also in the 1990s John Welsman composed and arranged extensively for the television series Road to Avonlea.
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John Welsman has composed music for several other television series including Franklin and Friends, My Pet Monster, Physic Investigators, The War of the Worlds, Freaky Stories, CBC's Magic Hour, The Mighty Jungle, By Way of the Stars and the 1980s Twilight Zone series.
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John Welsman co-wrote a song, "Morning Light", for the Toronto band Men in Suits, who perform to raise money for charity.
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In 2015 John Welsman was named president of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.
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John Welsman wrote the score for the film Kingston Paradise, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, and the Caribbean Tales Film Festival in 2015.