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Creative Team
BENOIT GROULX
Music Director / Arranger
Benoit Groulx, a composer trained in the classical idiom, has worked as an orchestrator on numerous films as well as an arranger on popular and jazz projects, and the 1995 winner of a Félix for Arranger of the Year given by ADISQ (Association québécoise de l’industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vid o). His original music includes movie scores (An American Haunting, A Sound of Thunder), chamber and orchestral work, jazz and world music. Among his clients are Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, National Film Board of Canada, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Disques Analekta, Musicor, CBC/Radio-Canada and Cirque du Soleil. For Cirque du Soleil, Benoit was the producer for the recording of the production Corteo, hailed as an oeuvre of rare depth and beauty.
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MICHAEL RIOTTO
Lighting Director
Michael Riotto has been a theatrical lighting designer, director and production manager since 1990 and has worked with Cirque du Soleil, Les 7 doigts de la Main, Cirque Eloize, and Les gens d'R. Currently he is the Principal of Michael Riotto Design, LLC (MRD), an architectural and theatrical design firm based in New York. MRD is committed to finding alternative and sustainable methods of illumination and is actively involved in the design of new fixtures, including LED sources, for both theatrical and architectural applications.
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MARION J CAFFEY
Stage Director
Raised in Gainesville, FL, Marion now resides in New Jersey having recently become the Executive Producer of the iconic show, Apollo Amateur Night, produced at the world Famous Apollo Theater in New York City. Marion began his career as a song and dance man in New York in 1981, ultimately performing on Broadway, Off-Broadway and around the world. In 1997, he made a career choice to dedicate his time and talent to conception, directing, producing and writing, eventually creating and directing Street Corner Symphony (Broadway), Cookin' at the Cookery (Off-Broadway), 3 Mo' Tenors and 3 Mo' Divas (PBS & HDNet) and was the original stage director for the Canadian stage hit Bowfire!. On November 13, 2006, he became a part of American history working as Creative Producer/Director of the Ceremonial Groundbreaking for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. When complete, this memorial will honor the only non-president on the Mall in Washington DC. One King among presidents. Marion thanks his family Stephanie, Mari, Dawn, Phyllis and Chris.
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JORGE CALANDRELLI
Arranger
Jorge Calandrelli won his third Grammy in 2006 with "For Once in my Life" performed by Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder on the legendary chart breaking album Tony Bennett-Duets: An American Classic for which he was Music Director, Arranger and Conductor. His other Grammy awards were in 1999 and 2004 with Yo-Yo Ma. As composer and orchestrator, Jorge Calandrelli has been involved in various television and motion pictures in the United States and Latin America. Among the most outstanding are: Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee); The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg); The Billionaire Boys Club (Marvin Chomsky); Tron (Steven Lisberger) and The Shining (Stanley Kubrik). Most recently Jorge Calandrelli provided orchestral arrangements for Sting's current tour.
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FRÉDÉRIC CHIASSON
Arranger
Born in Lamèque, New Brunswick, Frédéric Chiasson studied saxophone at conservatories in France before returning to Canada to study composition. He received his master’s degree in composition from the Université de Montréal with Denis Gougeon. Currently Frédéric is completing his composition doctorate at the Université de Montréal with Isabelle Panneton and Caroline Traube. He has been a member of the board of directors of Codes d’accès, an organization for young composers and performers of new music, and president of the Cercle des compositeurs de l’Université de Montréal (CéCo). Frédéric has received numerous grants and prizes, among them the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche en Sciences et Culture (FQRSC) doctorate scholarship, and the Canadian Universities Musical Society (CUMS) Composition Prize. He frequently gives lectures at conferences on his research of instrumental and orchestral timbre related to Charles Koechlin’s Traité de l’orchestration. Frédéric Chiasson distinguishes himself with his search for an adequate alchemy between contemporary and more ancient composition techniques, producing a renewed musical expression. The resulting works leave an impression of strength, originality and naturalness.
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ANTHONY ROZANKOVIC
Arranger
Anthony Rozankovic graduated from the Québec Music Conservatory in 1990, completing his curriculum in composition, orchestra direction, fugue, counterpoint, harmony and trombone with masters Gilles Tremblay, Gaston Arel, Clermont Pépin, Jacques Faubert, Joseph Zuskin and Raffi Armenian. Though his work as a composer has since been vast and varied, Anthony Rozankovic has also developed an impressive career as orchestra and music director, conducting over a hundred performances of orchestral pieces, including operas, classical and contemporary symphonies, several of which were new creations. In his stunning creative drive, Anthony Rozankovic has composed more than 40 orchestral pieces. Among his commissioned works was the collective production of the Millennium Symphony performed before an audience of 40,000 at Montréal’s St-Joseph Oratory in June 2000. In 1995, he received the ADISQ Félix Award as arranger of the year. Since 1996, Anthony Rozankovic has also been nominated twice at the Gémeaux Awards for his sound track compositions. Another ADISQ nomination (Album of the Year-Original Sound track) went to Anthony Rozankovic for his album D’où cé qu’on vient (Where do we go), a compilation of his works for stage, cinema and TV. In addition to his current engagements as a composer of film music, concert pieces and arrangements, Anthony Rozankovic remains an active keyboard performer, exploring a great diversity of musical venues: jazz, pop and world music.
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