Carly Paradis

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Carly Paradis
Born (1980-05-30) May 30, 1980
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Origin Stoney Creek Ontario, Canada Canada
Genres Contemporary classical
Indie
Instrumental
Electronic
Post-rock
Alternative
Occupations musician, composer
Instruments Piano
Website http://www.carlyparadis.com

Carly Paradis was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and is a composer and pianist.[1][2][3][4] She composes soundtracks for movies, documentaries and television series. In 2008, she worked alongside film composer Clint Mansell.[5][6][7] She arranged piano parts on Mansell's soundtrack for the BAFTA Award winning film Moon,[1] directed by Duncan Jones, and played all piano on the official score and soundtrack. She currently lives in London.

Film and television scoring

BBC Two TV series Line of Duty written by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions. She again worked alongside Clint Mansell arranging all the piano in the 2009 feature film The Rebound starring Catherine Zeta-Jones.[8] She composed the Steven Seagal 2011/2012 television series True Justice[9][10][11] and film Deadly Crossing.[12] In documentary television, in 2010 Paradis composed the score to the BBC Two documentary Davis v Taylor: The '85 Black Ball Final,[13] commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championship final which was hosted by Colin Murray[14][15] and The Venus Project online documentary entitled Paradise or Oblivion in 2012. Her music can be heard in such television programmes as One Tree Hill (TV series), Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Listener (TV series), Rookie Blue, and The Border.

Film trailer music

Carly's song Come Over can be heard in the trailer for In the Land of Blood and Honey, directorial debut by Angelina Jolie[16]

Her Piano Snooker Theme can be heard in the TV trailer for Martin Scorsese Hugo (film) (2011)

Carly composed pieces featured in the Iron Man 3, Dead Island Ryder White and True Detective (TV series) trailers on behalf of Sencit Music.

Various works from her 2011 album "They Have Been Watching" appear in the trailer of The Venus Project online documentary called Paradise or Oblivion

Performance

Paradis has performed piano and keyboard alongside noted film composer Clint Mansell and Sonus Quartet showcasing his works at the Gent Film Festival in Belgium, Tenerife International Film Festival in the Canary Islands,[17] LA's Largo (nightclub) and Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), New York City's St. Paul the Apostle Church (Manhattan) and Union Chapel, Islington.[18][19][20][21] She was in a Canadian pop/rock duo called Oceanship[22][23][24][25] from 2004 to 2009, managed by Mark Avsec[26] with songs played on today's top tune KCRW,[27] XM Radio, WXPN[28] and CFNY-FM.[29] They toured China in 2006/2007, and performed at Canadian Music Week in 2009[30][31]

Albums

In April 2011 the mini album They Have Been Watching was released on iTunes.[32]

In November 2013 the debut album Hearts To Symphony was released on iTunes.

Nominations

Paradis was nominated for Piano / Keyboard Player of the Year in the Hamilton Music Awards 2009[33][34]

Education

Paradis studied music and multimedia at McMaster University in Hamilton and did a third year exchange to McGill University in Montreal to study digital studio composition. She also has a bachelor of education from the University of Ottawa.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4134988/
  2. ↑ "Official website of composer Carly Paradis". Carlyparadis.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  3. ↑ CapCo4 (February 11, 2009). "Carly Paradis – Discover music, concerts, stats, & pictures at". Last.fm. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Un. "Carly Paradis | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's". Myspace.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  5. ↑ "International Musician June 2009 – 30 – 0030". Myvirtualpaper.com. June 28, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Hamilton Magazine". Hamilton Magazine. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4134988
  9. ↑ http://www.katzforums.com/showthread.php?p=4951484
  10. ↑ "Deadly Crossing (TV) (2011)". FilmAffinity. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  11. ↑ "Unofficial Steven Seagal". Steven-seagal.net. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  12. ↑ "Deadly Crossing | Blu-ray and DVD reviews by Maggie Woods". MotorBar. December 27, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  13. ↑ "Davis v Taylor: the ’85 Black Ball Final documentary (What song did they use?)? – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers". Uk.answers.yahoo.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  14. ↑ "Davis v Taylor – The '85 Black Ball Final (Part 6 of 6)". YouTube. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  15. ↑ "Press Office – Colin Murray". BBC. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  16. ↑ http://www.sencit.net/#/video/
  17. ↑ Héctor A. Rodríguez. ": La Defunción :". Ladefuncion.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  18. ↑ Submitted by Vanesa Bocanegra (bocanegravanesa@gmail.com) (July 13, 2009). "News : Fimucité Comes Back with its Third Edition Devoted to the Alien Saga. Special Guests to Include Mark Snow, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Clint Mansell, Joel McNeely and John Ottman". Soundtrack.Net. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  19. ↑ http://www.tenerifeevents.com/music/clint-mansell-and-the-sonus-quartet
  20. ↑
  21. ↑ O'Neill, Phelim (July 29, 2009). "Film music that needs to be heard outside of cinemas | Music | guardian.co.uk". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  22. ↑ "The sound of a hit song « @somevelvetblog". Brucew.wordpress.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  23. ↑ "Article on mission misses mark". FlamboroughReview.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  24. ↑ "DontStopThePop: November 2008". Dontstopthepop.blogspot.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  25. ↑ "Oceanship – Credits". Oceanshipmusic.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  26. ↑ "Red Velvet Takes The Stage At Billboard Digital Music Live! @ Top40-Charts.com – Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries". Top40-charts.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  27. ↑ "Oceanship: Don't Wear Me Out – Today's Top Tune on KCRW". Kcrw.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  28. ↑ "» Blog Archive » My Morning Download 4/8/09 – Oceanship". Xpn.org. April 8, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  29. ↑ Light, Jordan (November 4, 2009). "Oceanship sails the sound waves". Bhamweekly.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  30. ↑ David (February 24, 2009). "CMW:500 artists, 45 venues, 5 nights, 1life". Fyimusic.ca. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  31. ↑ Posted by Kevin at 8:24 am (October 23, 2011). "OCEANSHIP » POWER OF POP: Music, Film, Comics & Book Reviews". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  32. ↑ "iTunes – Music – They Have Been Watching by Carly Paradis". Itunes.apple.com. April 5, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  33. ↑ "2009 Hamilton Music Awards nominees". TheSpec. October 17, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2011. 
  34. ↑

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