Shawn Pierce is a Canadian musician, audio engineer, mixer, music editor and film composer. He is noted for his music for the TV series Wildfire, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and Haven.
Pierce is a graduate of the Berklee College Of Music in Boston where he majored in Film Scoring.[1]
Over the last 20 years Pierce has worked on numerous records with credits for mixing, mastering, engineering and producing,[2] including Coco Love Alcorn's Joyful album (2009) on which he also played guitar and trumpet, as well as supplied backing vocals.[3] He was also engineer on Loudon Wainwright III's Here Come the Choppers (2005), doing the mixing as well.
He has worked as a music editor on various TV series including The Dead Zone, The 4400, The L Word, and Ed, Edd n Eddy. While working as music editor he had the opportunity to use his own compositions in various episodes, winning three separate Leo Award nominations for work on The Dead Zone.[4] In 2006 he provided the music for the Canadian documentary series Defying Gravity for which he received a Gemini nomination (Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series 2008)[5] and he commenced his work on Wildfire. He is currently series composer for both Todd and the Book of Pure Evil and Haven.
An interesting piece of trivia regards music for the film A Wrinkle in Time (2003) (TV), which was credited to Jeff Danna, but Pierce and Patric Caird were nominated for a Leo Award in 2004 for the music.[4]