CHARLIE
GRAY
MUSIC FOR FILM & TELEVISION
I am a full service music production company providing the entire range of services required for film, television, theatre or CD production.
This includes supervising & music consulting recording, editing, mixing and mastering; composing original music and arranging.
Recent projects included recording/playback and supervising music for the film Billy Bishop Goes to War. I also arranged the music and conducted the sessions. Recent mastering for ‘Quartetto Gelato’ CD, a concert with Jeff Beck and Aretha.
"As a composer, arranger and musical collaborator, Charlie has impeccable taste, a wonderful imagination and a versatile sense of style - from classical to jazz, from traditional to progressive, from celebrative to subversive - he is always spot on ... and not only that, he's a great trumpet player!"
Barbara
Willis Sweete
Founding Partner, Rhombus Media
Director, Billy Bishop Goes to War the Film
~ Charlie is performing at the Halifax Jazz Festival ~ July
2011 & currently
working on a one-man play with music with his brother John MacLachlan
Gray.
Charlie Gray was music director for BLUESLINK for a second
year on on May 5, 2011 at The Hard Rock Cafe, which featured the great Jackie
Richardson. BLUES LINK is a fundraiser for YOUTHLINK.
Charlie
recently played a Tribute to Herbie Hancock on April 17, 2011.
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- Charlie created many long-running themes for radio:
logos and themes for CBC Radio News. This
Morning ran daily nationally from 1997-2002; The World
This Weekend played from 1996-2006; themes for Quirks and
Quarks ran for 12 years.
- His compositions have been featured on CBC Radio on different occasions; he was featured at the 2004 Halifax Jazz Festival, with his own group and with Doug Riley. Co-wrote with John Gray, songs and underscore for the Stratford and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals productions of Pericles.
Produced
4 CDs of Opera for mezzo soprano Hiroko Motomiya of
Tokyo which are widely sold in Japan, and in 1999 arranged and produced
a double CD set of 26 Zen spiritual songs for artist and Zen Master
Chiba of Tokyo.
- Composed and recorded: 4 promos for Family Channel, 13 - 60 second commercial spots for Spectrum United, and 13 spots for Minolta (1997-1998)
- Produced and arranged Hope
is a Star CD for
the United Church of Canada (1999) Composed music for film Valentine ,
writer/director Ross Munroe, Spitfire Pictures (Canada)1997; in
2000 completed music score and did all post-production audio for
feature film JO JOE [Independent-Phil Desjardins Canada]
and Sealing Fate (honourable mention ) Documentary scores
for TV Ontario & Government of Canada.
Collaborated
with Harry Somers on music for stage play Medea 1997 (Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre), Magic Flute 1998 with flutist Robert
Cram: CBC recording & live performance, and other projects, Completed
an electronic ending for A Thousand Ages ,
the final work of the late Canadian composer Harry Somers, which premiered
in Winnipeg January 2000.- Released his own CD Past Present Future in 2004.
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- SMARTIES: Charlie supervised auditions of 180 teenagers for Everyday People, a commercial series (2009). He also supervised on set to ensure realism etc. On the film version of Billy Bishop Goes to War, Charlie was involved from beginning pre-record to finished mix.
- Recorded for broadcast on JAZZ FM: Marcus Belgrave,
John Johnson and University of Toronto bands. CDs recorded live include:
Rosemary Galloway with Pat LaBarbara, HSSB Youth Orchestra, and other
European band concerts over the past six summers in Italy, Austria,
Ireland and
France in 2009.
- Restored from archives and remixed electronic sound design components for opera ‘Louis Riel by Harry Somers, Place Des Arts Montreal-McGill University production (2005).
- Charlie composed, music, recorded and voiced over Walk 21 short film for the City of Toronto which was presented in New Zealand. This was accomplished with a three day turnaround time.
- CD’s mastered include: The Cottars (2); P.J. Perry; Brigham Phillips Big Band; Susan Piltch; Vern Dorge; Rebecca Whelan; Bob Rice; Doug Riley; JVC - Hiroko Motomiya & Chiba of Tokyo (5); Geoff Young; Mike Cado; The Brampton Concert Band, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Barry Romberg (2); Lorne Lofsky; Bill Bridges; John McDermott (3); Kieran Overs; Chris Dedrick; Shelley Berger; Gary Gray, Sound Touch (Sue Hodge); James MacDonald; Al Henderson; Quartetto Gelato: Jim Galloway; Linda Cara; Enoch Kent; Stitch Winchester; Wendy Soloman; David Warrack; Brent Carver.
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- Playing trumpet has backed up Aretha Franklin, Ella
Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Natalie Cole, The Temptations,
The Spinners, Lena Horne, Ann Margaret, Glass Tiger 1986: Thin Red
Line album, Jeff Beck, toured with Anne Murray (2 yrs), Harry Connick
Jr., Toronto and Halifax Jazz Festivals with Doug Riley ; also performed
with Boss Brass, Banda Brava and with his won groups. Featured soloist
on the classic SCTV Mr. Mambo skit with John Candy (13 words
to live by).
Released CD of original compositions Past Present Future, 2003
Lucian Gray is completing his third year at Berklee College of Music in Boston. When he is in Toronto, he plays and co-writes with Charlie, his dad. BERKLEE INTERVIEW with LUCIAN
NEWS: Lucian will be a featured performer at the Beaches International Jazz Festival 2011 – Sunday July 24 at 1 PM. click for more info
CONTACT CHARLIE
Email charlie@charliegray.ca
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