Spencer Creaghan is a Canadian musician and composer. He is most noted for his work on the 2021 film ''
Motherly'', for which he received a
Canadian Screen Award
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nomination for
Best Original Score at the
10th Canadian Screen Awards
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in 2022.
His other credits have included the films ''
Black Water'' and ''
Quickening
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'', the web series ''
Teenagers
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''
[Steve Greene]
"Web Series ‘teenagers’ Wants to Dig Past the Usual Young Adult Drama"
''IndieWire
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'', December 13, 2016. and the television drama series ''
SurrealEstate
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Premise
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''. He has also composed orchestral parts for
symphonic metal
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bands, including
Devilment
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, Astaroth, Diamorte and
Lindsay Schoolcraft
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.
He is an alumnus of the
Slaight Family Music Lab
The Canadian Film Centre opened the Slaight Family Music Lab in 2013, sponsored by the Slaight Family Foundation.
Every year a small group of promising composers and song-writers are invited to study under a distinguished composer.
The first men ...
at the
Canadian Film Centre
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.
References
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21st-century Canadian composers
Canadian film score composers
Canadian Film Centre alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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