John Mills-Cockell

John Mills-Cockell (born May 19, 1943 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian composer.

Life

Mills-Cockell studied piano with John Coveart , composition with Samuel Dolin and electronic music with Gustav Ciamaga at the Conservatory and the University of Toronto . In 1967 he won the BMI Student Composer Awards for his Movements for Orchestra and Reverberation for Solo Trombone and two tapes.

Since 1966 he has belonged to the mixed media group "Intersystem" (with the sculptor Michael Hayden , the architect Dik Zander and the poet Blake Parker ), which pursued a method of composition and interpretation in which music, film and visual arts are integrated . With the group Syrinx he gave concerts between 1970 and 1972, appeared on the radio and recorded the albums Syrinx and Long Lost Relatives .

After a stay in England, he returned to Canada in 1974, where he has worked primarily as a composer ever since. In addition to numerous mixed media pieces, Mills-Cockell composed pieces for chamber music ensembles and for electronic instruments as well as film and theater music.

Works

• Starscape. Ballet, 1971
• For internal use only. Ballet, 1971
• January Tree. Ballet, 1971
• Lies (by Jonathon Reid and Peter Walsh), soundtrack, 1976
• The Clown Murders (by Martyn Burke ), soundtrack, 1976
• Deflections , ballet, 1976
• Deadly Harvest (by Martin Lager , directed by Timothy Bond ), score, 1977
• Mondo Strip (by Paul Fulford , directed by Anthony Kramreither ), soundtrack, 1980
• Monster on the Night Express ( Terror Train , by TY Drake , directed by Roger Spottiswoode ), soundtrack, 1980
• Humongous (by William Gray , directed by Paul Lynch ), score, 1982
• Moving Targets (by Ian Sutherland , directed by John Trent ), score, 1983
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare ), incidental music, 1983
• Striker's Mountain ( In the Realm of the White Mountains ) (of Wendy Wacko and Pete White , directed by Alan Simmonds ), film music, 1985
• The Little Vampire ( The Little Vampire ), film music, 1986
• Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare), incidental music, 1986
• The Tempest (by Shakespeare), incidental music, 1987
• Labor of Love (directed by René Bonnière ), film music, 1990
• Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl (by Marty Chan ), incidental music, 1996
• Running Dog, Paper Tiger , incidental music, 1997
• Sisters , incidental music, 1997
• Atlantis (by Maureen Hunter ), incidental music, 1998
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (by George Bernard Shaw ), incidental music, 1998
• To Ideal Husband (by Oscar Wilde ), incidental music, 1999
• The Attic, The Pearls & 3 Fine Girls , incidental music, 1999
• Coronation Voyage ( Le Voyage du Couronnement by Michel Marc Bouchard ), incidental music, 2000
• Hard Times (by Charles Dickens ), incidental music, 2000
• All's Well That Ends Well (by Shakespeare), incidental music, 2001
• Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen ), incidental music, 2002
• Exchange (by William Bruce Davis ), score, 2003
• The Taming of the Shrew (by Shakespeare), incidental music, 2003
• He Who Gets Slapped (by Leonid Nikolajewitsch Andrejew ), incidental music, 2003
• Packing Up (by William B. Davis), score, 2004
• Trying (by Joanna Glass ), incidental music, 2005
• Tyrants (by Paul Ledoux and Jacob Richmond ), incidental music, 2006
• 49th and Main (by William B. Davis and Barbara Ellison , directed by Tom Braidwood ), score, 2006
• Honor (by Joanna Murray-Smith ), incidental music (with Pamela Highbaugh Aloni , cello), 2006
• Reverse (by William B. Davis), score, 2008
• Skylight (by David Hare ), incidental music, 2008

Web links

• Homepage
• John Mills-Cockell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• John Mills-Cockell ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .