The 2021-22 Slaight Family Music Lab Digital Brochure

AUBREY MCGHEE

DEANNA H. CHOI

KAÏA KATER

KALAISAN KALAICHELVAN

SCOTT HARDWOOD

2021 / 2022

THE SLAIGHT FAMILY MUSIC LAB

ALEXANDRA PETKOVSKI

ALEXANDRA PETKOVSKI www.alexandrapetkovski.com Called "a haunting artist to watch" by Rolling Stone, Alexandra Petkovski is an accomplished composer, producer, songwriter, artist, and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Canada. Alex creates genre-defying music exploring contemporary polytextural, orchestral cinematic, hybrid-synth, trailerization and vocalise sonic spaces. A first place award winner for SOCAN’s 2022 Emerging Screen Composers Awards, 2022 Hollywood Music in Media Awards and 20th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards, her work can be heard across platforms like Fortnite, SXSW, Playstation, Disney+, TIFF, Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, and PBS. To watch Alexandra’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

REPRESENTED BY

Andrew Impact24 andrew@impact24pr.com

AUBREY MCGHEE aubrey2099@gmail.com

Aubrey McGhee is a Toronto-based composer and musician who has been an active performer in the city over the last decade. Between touring the country from coast to coast to coast with various acts and contributing to multiple projects, I Remember The Footprints in The Snow, “Anywhere But Here” by Tika, “Good Morning Hunter” by Odario, and “Need You” by HMLT, Aubrey hopes to continue to inspire and help other creatives tell their stories through art and dialogue.

To watch Aubrey’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

DEANNA H. CHOI www.splitbrainsound.com Deanna H. Choi composes music for the screen and designs sonic environments for live performance. Having previously studied neuroscience, the study of human behaviour informs her work as a storyteller. Recent film credits include Last of the Right Whales (HitPlay/CBC), Relax, I’m From The Future (Universal/Wango Films). She is a classically trained violinist, has designed over 100 theatre and dance productions across Canada, and teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada. She is the 2020 laureate of the Pauline McGibbon Award, and an SCGC member. She has served in artist residencies at the Banff Centre, SOCAN Foundation, and Necessary Angel Company.

To watch Deanna’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

REPRESENTED BY

Ian Arnold Catalyst TCM ian@catalysttcm.com

KAÏA KATER www.kaiakater.com Kaïa Kater is a Juno Award-nominated and Polaris Prize-longlisted songwriter of Grenadian-Canadian heritage. Her voice and deft songcraft have garnered acclaim from CBC, BBC Music and Rolling Stone. Her recent film work includes original music for the CBC/BET+ Emmy nominated series The Porter, as well as a song places on Global TV’s Mary Kills People. Kaïa has toured internationally, including notable performances at NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and Carnegie Hall. Kaia released a new single (“Parallels”) in October. She is currently working on a full length album for release in 2023.

To watch Kaïa’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

REPRESENTED BY

Tamara Mavens Music Management tamara@mavensmusic.ca

KALAISAN KALAICHELVAN www.kalaisanmusic.com Kalaisan Kalachelvan is a composer based in Toronto, Canada. His compositional practice spans multiple disciplines, drawing from film, dance, theatre, installation and concert music. Named by Ludwig Van as one of “six emerging Canadian composers to keep an eye on”, Kalaisan is a 2021 Fellow of the prestigious Sundance Composers Lab and is one of the awarded grantees of the Sundance Institute’s Art of Practice Fellowship. He has held residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s 2021 Slaight Music Residency. In 2022, Kalaisan scored celebrated feature films that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (This Place) and the Fantasia Film Festival (The Protector).

To watch Kalaisan’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

SCOTT HARWOOD https://soundcloud.com/user-82617622/sets/reel-2021 Scott Harwood is a songwriter, film-composer and producer whose blend of classic musicality and forward-thinking production have made him a standout.

As Scott Hardware, he has released four full-length albums and toured internationally. Of his latest collection, Ballad of a Tryhard, Pitchfork says ‘sincere, presented with sophisticated arrangements’ while calling it ‘singular and personal’. Having collaborated across many genres including coming-of-age comedy, documentary, horror and suspense, Harwood is now completing work on his first feature doc, Celestial Queer: The Life Work and Wonder of James MacSwain as well as fictional shorts by Canadian up-and-comers Chloé Hung and Nick Butler.

To watch Scott’s Onscreen Music Showcase: CLICK HERE

REPRESENTED BY

Jon Telephone Explosion Records jon@telephoneexplosion.com

LEAD SUPPORTER

PROGRAM PARTNERS

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