The Billboard Canada Screen Composers of the Year Award has its inaugural shortlist.
The award, presented by SOCAN, is shining a light on five talented composers who have made a global impact, scoring some of the most powerful moments in film and television.
Together, these musicians are responsible for the sounds behind some of the most talked about television and cinema of the past year, from The White Lotus to Palm Royale, massive IMAX documentaries to video games to major broadcasts of one of Canada’s national pastimes: hockey.
The winner will be announced at Billboard Canada Power Players on June 11, giving these pivotal artists – often positioned behind the scenes – a position onstage alongside the most powerful executives in Canadian music.
The shortlisters include:
Cristobal Tapia de Veer – A three-time Emmy and BAFTA-winning composer who’s known for work on critically acclaimed series like HBO’s The White Lotus, C4’s Utopia, Black Mirror, and No. 1 box office surprise hit Smile.
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Michelle Osis – Four-time Canadian Screen Award nominee Michelle Osis is best known for her score to the gigantic screen documentary TRex in IMAX, as well as for her collaborations with composer Mark Korven on Netflix’s Don’t Move and the MGM+ series Billy the Kid. With partner Terry Benn, she’s composed for Carved for Disney+ and the festival favourites film Dark Match and Sway.
Mark Korven – Award-winning composer Mark Korven is best known for his scores to the A24 features The Witch and The Lighthouse, and for the over 10 million YouTube views of him performing on his invention, the Apprehension Engine. The last two years have seen him working The Black Phone, The First Omen and Until Dawn for Sony Playstation.
Jeff Toyne – Toyne’s score to Apple TV+’s Palm Royale (Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett) combines jazz, Latin and orchestral elements to evoke the 1960s and has won multiple Emmys and Canadian Screen Music Awards, among others.
Read more about all the nominees here.
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06/03/2025Billboard is bringing the Billboard Summit to Canada next Wednesday (June 11) at Toronto’s NXNE, and one of the standout panels is a conversation between deadmau5 and REZZ. This week, the pair appeared on the cover of Billboard Canada to unpack their creative process in a rare joint interview.
“We produce in two totally different ways,” says Joel Zimmerman, the man behind deadmau5. “I am so old school and she is so new school.”
Both artists hail from Niagara Falls, Ontario, and both are known for their innovative production, DIY ethos and big-stage spectacle. They’re both big thinkers and big presences, instantly recognizable for their larger-than-life visual trademarks – deadmau5 with his signature LED mau5head helmet and REZZ with her hypnotic spinning light glasses – and they both have dedicated cult fanbases.
REZZ – born Isabelle Rezazadeh – cites deadmau5 as an immeasurable influence.
“He essentially birthed me as a producer,” she says. “He birthed my entire interest in making music.”
In 2021, deadmau5 and REZZ officially joined forces with their first on-record collaboration, “Hypnocurrency.” It’s dark, spellbinding and meticulously layered – a slow-burning cinematic journey that lands squarely between their two sonic worlds. To create it, they both had to step outside their comfort zones.
When asked what he learned from working with REZZ, deadmau5 doesn’t miss a beat.
“I learned that there are BPMs that actually do exist below 128,” he deadpans. “I didn’t know that all you had to do was click on the number and drag it down.”
The two give unprecedented access into how they create, including a tease of another upcoming track as REZZMAU5.
Read the full story here and get your tickets to Billboard Summit here.
Khalid will headline Billboard Canada The Stage at NXNE the following day, on June 12. He also joined Billboard for a cover story for Billboard Canada and Billboard that dropped today.
The R&B and pop artist talks about his ‘flirty side,’ gay identity and the myth that he’s an introvert. “My new era of music feels like I’m finally ready to be the artist I’ve always dreamt of being,” he says. “It goes back to the regressions of when I was a child — imagining myself and thinking, ‘I want to be this artist one day.’ Now I feel like I have the confidence to finally be that artist.”
Read the full story here.
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