Jonathan Goldsmith (musician)

Jonathan Goldsmith
Nationality Canadian
Occupation film 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]

For his work as a composer he has won four Gemini Awards, for his work on Pit Pony, Dead Silence, Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making[3] and The Nativity,[4] a Canadian Screen Award for Titanic,[5] and a BAFTA Award for Sex Traffic.[6] 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, Away from Her, October 1970, Take This Waltz, Rare Birds, Visiting Hours, Casino Jack, Compulsion, Above and Beyond, Jewel, Cell 213, High Life, Score: A Hockey Musical 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[7] and Hugh Marsh's album Shaking the Pumpkin in 1989.[8]

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. ↑ "Composers gaze into the crystal ball". Playback, April 30, 2007.
  4. ↑ "Gemini Award Winners in Drama, Children/Youth, Comedy and Variety". Broadcaster, September 1, 2011.
  5. ↑ "‘Bomb Girls’ wins at Canadian Screen Awards". Global News, February 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jerry Roberts, Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors. Scarecrow Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8108-6138-1. p. 636.
  7. ↑ "The Juno nominees are...". Toronto Star, December 5, 1984.
  8. ↑ "Juno Nominees". Toronto Star, February 2, 1989.

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