Eric Robertson

Eric Nathan Robertson (born April 6, 1948 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) is a Canadian composer , organist and pianist .

Life

Robertson studied organ, piano and music theory in Edinburgh with E. Francis Thomas , Eric Reid and William O. Minay . In 1963 he went to Toronto, where he was a student of Charles Peaker (organ) and Samuel Dolin (composition). He also worked as an organist and choirmaster at St John's Lutheran Church and played the organ in the rhythm and blues band Majestics . From 1966 to 1990 he was choirmaster and organist at Humbercrest United Church , then at St. Paul's Anglican Church . In 1978 he became musical director of the CBC television show The Tommy Hunter Show . As a producer he released albums a. a. by Liona Boyd , Moe Koffman , Nana Mouskouri and Roger Whittaker . His own album Magic Melodies was released 1.25 million times internationally.

In addition to choir and organ works - u. a. Four Songs of Remembrance (1983) and Another Spring (1988) for choir and orchestra, Jazz Magnificat for choir and jazz band and Variations on the 'Sussex Carol' for choir and organ - Robertson composed more than 60 film scores and the music for several television series.

Filmography (selection)

• 1979: In strictest secrecy (Plague)
• 1982: A Star in My Dark Night (If You Could See What I Hear)
• 1982: Trapped (Trapped)
• 1983: Avanaida - Satan's Viper Death Bite (Spasms)
• 1985: The Cuckoo Bird
• 1987: Home Is Where the Hart Is
• 1989: Millennium - The 4th Dimension (Millennium)
• 1990: Getting Married in Buffalo Jump
• 1992: I'll Never Get to Heaven
• 1994: The Last Rendezvous (Broken Lullaby)
• 1996: No man is perfect (Waiting for Michelangelo)
• 2000: Bonhoeffer - The Last Step (Bonhoeffer - Agent of Grace)

Web links

• Literature by and about Eric Robertson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eric Robertson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Eric Robertson
• Allmusic - discography