Composer
Dino Emilio Giancola's musical education began
innocently enough with private instruction when
he was 9 years old. Encouraged by winning
numerous Kiwanis Festival Competition Prizes he
continued his musical studies throughout his
teenage years. In high school, he began playing
in local jazz big bands and combos as well as
progressive rock/pop bands. It was at this time
that Dino discovered multi-track recording and
began writing experimental electronic music.
Dino began his formal
musical education at Mohawk College of Applied
Arts in Hamilton Ontario, where he began
compositional studies in both classical and jazz
idioms with Michael Malone (of Lighthouse). After completing the
program in Hamilton, he traveled to Toronto to
study jazz-fusion music at Humber College and then
to McGill University in Montreal, where he studied
classical orchestration and jazz big band
arranging. While still in school, Dino began
collaborating on music for various radio and
television ads (Ford Probe, Nautilus Plus) working
with the biggest "jingle" studio in
Montreal. After graduating with Distinction and a
Bachelors degree in Music he immediately began
creating music for film, television, modern dance
and theatre. Dino has since studied composition
privately with Dr. Richard Danielpour in N.Y.C.
As a result of his
work as a composer for screen and stage (over 60
productions including a dozen National Film Board
productions), Dino has had the opportunity to work
with many musicians of note. A passion for ethnic
instrumentation within the occidental began as a
result of collaborations with some of the nation's
most recognized world musicians (Liu Fang, Ganesh
Anandan, Lei Qiang among others). Equally at ease
with modern technology, Dino also enjoys
incorporating samplers and digital manipulation
into his compositions.
Dino
has won multiple Canada Council for the Arts
grants and was selected in the GCFC/SPACQ
recording session competition, which had the
McGill Symphony Orchestra play and record his
music. Career highlights include
arrangements for The Ensemble Moderne of Frankfurt
Germany, theme and episodic music for Fox
Television's Student Bodies, an orchestral work
premiered by The Victoria Symphony in 2008 and upcoming music
for Cirque du Soleil's 2008 show to be presented
at the World Expo in Zaragoza, Spain.
Dino
Giancola compose de la musique pour le cinéma, la
télévision, la danse et le théâtre. Il a créé
les arrangements musicaux de l'Ensemble Moderne
de Frankfurt (Allemagne), le thème musical de
Student Bodies pour la Fox Television, et
les trames sonores pour plusiers documentaires de
l'Office national du film du Canada. Ses plus récentes
collaborations sont avec Roger Sinha pour Benches
et deux longs-métrages présentés en première
mondiale au Festival des Films du Mond en 2006, 1st
Bite et Eaux de Vie. Dino a étudié à
l'université McGill en orchestration classique et
est présentment étudiant du Dr. Richard
Danielpour à New York.
AFFILIATIONS
American
Federation of Musicians
Society
of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of
Canada
Société
du droit de reproduction des auteurs
compositeurs et éditeurs du Canada inc.
Société
professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs
du Québec
