Sandy Thorburn

Sandy Thorburn (born 1963 as Hugh Alexander Thorburn) is a Canadian composer and arranger.

Education

He holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours) from McGill University, a Graduate Diploma in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television from the University of Southern California, and a Master's Degree and a Ph.D in musicology from the University of Toronto.[1] He is also one of a very few Canadian academics who have studied with notable film composers Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Bruce Broughton, Henry Mancini and Buddy Baker at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in composition for motion pictures and television. He worked as an orchestrator for several American television programs including In the Heat of the Night, and worked as an orchestrator for several Hollywood films including Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Career

Thorburn was resident musical director of The Thousand Islands Playhouse since 1986, and has musically directed numerous musicals.[2]

He has also directed two highly regarded productions including Forever Plaid (2009)[3] which was remounted at the Victoria Playhouse, Petrolia, and subsequently at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre near Toronto, Canada and Billy Bishop Goes to War (2011)[4] by John Gray, which will be remounted at the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope in 2012.

Scholarly Work.

He has taught music history, theory, ear training, performance and composition at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, as well as at the Faculty of Music, Scarborough College, and Knox College [5] at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo,[6] Wilfrid Laurier University, and Lakehead University in Orillia. He has also taught musical theatre performance at St. Lawrence College in Brockville.

Film Music, Television and Radio Credits

He spent several years (1990–93) as composer for CBC-Newsworld (now CBC News Network), composing themes for Ideas on Camera, The Media File, The Medicine File, The Passionate Eye, Vis-A-Vis and other programs. More recently, he has appeared on In Performance with Eric Friesen,[7] and was musical consultant and researcher for the new CBC2 series Peter The Symphony, hosted by Friesen, with Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Oundjian.

Church Music

He was organist and choir director of Calvin Presbyterian Church in Toronto from September 2006 until 2013. He previously held the same position at Celebration Presbyterian Church on Coldstream Avenue in Toronto. He is a regular lecturer and speaker on music, opera, theatre, and musical theatre, and has been a member of the Canadian Opera Company Speakers Bureau since 1999. He is a lecturer at Knox College, University of Toronto in Music in Christian Spirituality.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Sandy Thorburn - Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth Century Venice (review) - Notes 63:3". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  2. ↑ nurun.com. "Theatre music man living his dream". Gananoque Reporter. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  3. ↑ nurun.com. "It sings! Musical Forever Plaid forever a classic". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  4. ↑ nurun.com. "Billy Bishop Goes to War | Events". Collingwood Enterprise Bulletin. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
  5. ↑ "Knox College" (PDF).
  6. ↑ https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat-general-counsel/sites/ca.secretariat-general-counsel/files/uploads/files/20101115oagsen.pdf.
  7. ↑ http://artsalive.ca/collections/nacmusicbox/chronologique-timeline/index.php/en/activites-activities/balados-podcasts/transcription-transcript-08
  8. ↑ http://www.knox.utoronto.ca/sandy-thorburn/
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