Leo Marchildon
| Leo Marchildon | |
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May 30, 1962 Toronto, Canada |
Leo Marchildon (born May 30, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian film/theatre music composer and producer.
Marchildon's first commercial album, To Each is Given, based on inspirational poetry, was released in 1998. He and co-writer Adam-Michael James teamed up to create the stage musical The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery based upon the life of the famed Canadian author. This production enjoyed two summer seasons 2008-2009 on Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 2014 he premiered his symphonic tribute to Canada entitled "Canada, Our Dear Home", a 20 minute work for voice and orchestra celebrating the various cultural influences and indigenous Island fiddle music which helped to shape and support PEI's role as the Birthplace of Confederation. In 2016 he was hired to compose underscore music for the Watermark Theatre summer productions of "the Glass Menagerie" and "Blithe Spirit" in Rustico, PEI, and again in 2018 for their production of "Dial M for Murder". In 2017 he was commissioned by the PEI Symphony to compose part of the Cantata for Canada 150, and his "Song of a Tree" based on a poem by Madison Lockman premiered in November of that year at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.
Marchildon also arranges musical arrangements for choirs and soloists and is music director/organist for St. Dunstan's Basilica in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, as well as music director for the Diocese of Charlottetown. He is also conductor for the PEI Pops!. He has French-Canadian ancestry.
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