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Juno nominee Jeff Johnston is a Canadian-based film composer. His music has been heard on PBS, CBC-TV, CBC Newsworld, The Documentary Channel, Teletoons, CTV, and Global TV, and he has scored numerous films for the National Film Board of Canada. With musical beginnings as a jazz pianist and recording artist, his works are infused with alluring harmonies, lush textures, rhythmic inventiveness and spontaneity.
His first forays into film music included his work on the award-winning documentary When Women Kill. The intense subject matter revealed Johnston's eclectic abilities as a composer. It also established a long-term relationship with the National Film Board, where Johnston has gone on to score several more films, including feature documentaries, docu-dramas and animations. From 2021 - 2023 Johnston served on the Board of Directors of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada and also sponsored young composers for the SCGC mentorship program. He has been affiliated with several professional associations including SOCAN, American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers, Academy of Scoring Arts, and the American Federation of Musicians. He has twice been nominated for the Juno awards and the East Coast Music awards. The recipient of numerous grants/subventions from the Canada Council, FACTOR, Heritage Canada and Les Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec, Johnston is a recipient of the Sound Symposium's R. Murray Shafer award for composition and was twice a finalist in the Montreal Jazz Festival's Grand Prix du Jazz . He holds a Master's degree in Orchestration for Film, Games, and Television from the University of Chichester/Thinkspace Education and currently lives in Montreal where he teaches composition and jazz piano at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. |
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