Composer
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J. Douglas Dodd’s scores for orchestra, ensemble and electronics have been featured internationally in film, television, recordings, theatre and live performance. As a composer, arranger, pianist and music director, Doug has had the pleasure of composing and arranging for and performing with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, the Canada West Chamber Orchestra, and members of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. In 1985, Doug was awarded a Genie nomination for his score for the feature film Walls. That same year he was honored with Yorkton Film Festival ‘s Golden Sheaf Award for Best Original Score for the National Film Board‘s Hoppy: A Portrait of Elizabeth Hopkins. He composed music for numerous other film and video productions, most recently, the scores for the award winning feature film Bowl of Bone, and short subjects Painting with Fire and Spilsbury's Coast. In 1993, he was commissioned to compose and produce the score for the new Parliament Hill presentation, Reflections of Canada - Symphony of Sound and Light, an outdoor sound and light show presented nightly at the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. This massive project features the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Men's Chorus, Elektra Women's Choir, the Vancouver Children's Choir, many ethnic musicians and vocalist Joëlle Rabu. Symphony of Sound and Light premiered in Ottawa on May 17, 1994, and is scheduled to play on Parliament Hill until the millenium. In 1990 he was commissioned by the Vancouver CBC Orchestra to compose and orchestrate a setting for John Gray's The Fat Princess presented for UNICEF's The Gift of Music .This national broadcast was hosted by Audrey Hepburn and Mavor Moore. As a performing artist, Doug tours internationally with chanteuse Joëlle Rabu as pianist and music director. As co-writer, composer, pianist and producer, Doug’s association with Joëlle has produced the orchestrated show Magic of the Music Hall, featuring Joëlle Rabu and Symphony Orchestra, four albums, two world tours and hundreds of performances in venues ranging from concert halls to folk festivals. His theatre credits include being resident music director for Vancouver's City Stage and resident composer and music director for Nanaimo's Shakespeare Plus Festival. In his two seasons in Nanaimo, he wrote woodwind quintet settings for Romeo and Juliet and arranged the music for Irma la Douce and Cabaret. Other theatre music credits include Piaf - Her Songs, Her Loves, John Gray's Rock and Roll national tour, and Ted Galay's epic play Tsymbaly. In 1984 Doug won a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Music Direction for the musical Piaf- Her Songs, Her Loves. He was nominated in 1986 for another Jessie for Outstanding Music Direction for Tsymbaly, and again in 1989 for his solo cello score for Mona Lisa Toodle-oo. Doug is currently a member of the faculty of Malaspina University/College, Nanaimo, BC. Genie Award Nomination,1985 - Best Original Score for the motion picture Walls. Golden Sheaf Award, 1985 - Best Original Score, Yorkton Film Festival Hoppy - A Portrait of Elizabeth Hopkins. Jessie Richardson Award-1984- Outstanding Music Direction Piaf- Her Songs, Her Loves Jessie Richardson Award Nominations: 1986 - Outstanding Music Direction - Tsymbaly Jessie Richardson Award Nominations: 1986 - Best Soundscape - Mona Lisa Toodle-oo |
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Bowl of Bone Terminal City Ricochet Walls Big Meat Eater Skip Tracer | Turtle Productions E-Motion Films Omni Films BCD Entertainment Highlight Productions |
The Image Before Us Hoppy: A Portrait of Elizabeth Hopkins One of Many: Doctor Nhan Jack Hodgins' Island Mary of Mile 18 Jacks or Better Bamboo, Lions, and Dragons Out on a Limb Wild in the City The Reluctant Deckhand |
Hello, Goodbye Robert Service Forestry ICBC The Car Show |
Brat Productions Testar Productions Highlight Productions Highlight Productions Keane Productions |
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Anijam No Vacancy Raquetball New Seed Painting With Fire Spilsbury's Coast Community in Action Aga Khan Living the Difference T.I.A. Not Just A Place To Live The Great Ocean Matsqui-Inside Out Rod & Company African Day So Where's My Prince Already? |
Int'l Rocketship Cloudfire Productions Mercury Pictures Petra Productions Catherine Hahn A.R.T. Bookworld Productions Northern Lights Media Northern Lights Media Pomerleau Yellowknife Films Iris Media Dream Machine Peter Smilsky Pitcairn Pictures Rob Allen Reel Feelings |
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The Fat Princess Brass Quintet Magic of the Music Hall People Symphony of Sound & Light |
Vancouver CBC Orchestra Cornucopia RME Productions Canadian Red Cross National Capital Commission |
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Tonight...Piaf (starring Joëlle Rabu)
John Gray's Rock and Roll Mona Lisa Toodle-oo As You Like It Lysistrada A Christmas Carol Good Woman of Saskatchewan One in a Million Glory Days Tsymbaly Cabaret Romeo & Juliet Irma La Douce Taming of the Shrew Piaf:Her Songs,Her Loves Trivial Deceit Walls Hot Rods and Heavy Water We Too Beggars' Opera Some Kind of Savior Caucasian Chalk Circle Red Emma Net City Freedom Hotel Diner at the Edge of the Universe Callanish Lysistrada |
City Stage/RME Productions
National Arts Centre / V.E.C.C. New Play Centre Sudbury Theatre Centre Malaspina College Richmond Gateway Theatre Caravan Farm Theatre Green Thumb Theatre Fraser Valley College Ted Galay Shakespeare Plus Festival, Nanaimo Shakespeare Plus Festival, Nanaimo Shakespeare Plus Festival, Nanaimo Shakespeare Plus Festival, Nanaimo City Stage Malaspina College, Nanaimo Arts Club / New Play Centre Touchstone Theatre Malaspina College, Nanaimo Malaspina College, Nanaimo Tamahnous Theatre Caravan Stage Company East Side Theatre Front Society East Side Theatre Front Society Malaspina College, Nanaimo Kaleidoscope Theatre, Victoria Kaleidoscope Theatre, Victoria Studio 58 |