I have been working on the music industry and mostly for movie soundtrack and live performance  . this page is a show case for music composer and  future collaborator, feel free to contact me, i am mostly  on the road between los angeles and the East coast of Canada and USA

Jeff Johnston is a Canadian based composer of music for film and media, With musical beginnings as a jazz pianist and recording artist his works are infused with alluring harmonies, lush textures, rhythmic inventiveness and spontaneity. Chuck Berg of Jazz Times Magazine wrote "This is music, that while at the contemporary cutting edge, is both immediately and immensely satisfying." Johnston's trio and quartet recordings established him as a respected pianist and composer leading the Toronto Star's Geoff Chapman to deem Johnston as "clearly in Canada's top ranks" and the Globe and Mail's Mark Miller to say " This is Canadian jazz at it's best".

Born and raised in a musical family in St. John's, Newfoundland, Johnston's father is a retired big band pianist and church organist. His brother is a professional musician and piano teacher. Johnston says "There was always music in my house all day long from the time we woke up in the morning. If it wasn't a record playing, someone, somewhere was playing the piano or a guitar". 

Johnston went on to study piano and composition in New York City with renowned pianist and composer Richard Beirach.  More recently he studied cinematic orchestration techniques with Hollywood orchestrator Milton Nelson (Batman: Arkham Origins) and studied orchestral mixing online with Jake Jackson (Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games).

His first forays into film music included his work on the award winning National Film Board documentary When Women Kill directed by Barbara Doran. The dark subject matter revealed Johnston's eclectic abilities as a composer. It also established a long term relationship with the NFB and Johnston has gone on to score several more of their films, including feature documentaries, docu-dramas and animations.

Scoring  Justin Simm's award winning and beautiful film Hard Light was an exceptional opportunity for Johnston. National Film Board executive producer Annette Clarke writes , "My recent experience working with Jeff as composer on Hard Light was very rich and immensely satisfying.  Jeff scored a complex range of emotions based on beautiful storytelling by Justin Simms inspired by Michael Crummey's poetry - it was a demanding palate to face and he pulled it off beautifully, and with great generosity."

He has twice been nominated for the Juno awards and the East Coast Music awards. The recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council, FACTOR, Heritage Canada and The Quebec Arts Council,  Johnston received the R. Murray Shafer award for composition/performance for his inventive composition ETT at the Sound Symposium music festival. 

Along with his busy schedule of performing and composing,  Johnston also  teaches piano, composition and coaches  ensembles at McGill University's  Schulich School of Music. He has conducted workshops and guest lectured at universities across Canada.

Jeff Johnston is a member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada , SOCAN,  the American Federation of Musicians and the McGill Course Lecturers and Instructors Union.


Suad Bushnaq is a prolific, musically multilingual film and concert composer whose music has been hailed as 'reflective and touching' (BBC The Arts Hour), 'rich and accessible' (Klarafestival, Belgium), and 'beautiful as the sadness of the night and the joy of the daybreak (Arab music legend Marcel Khalifeh, on her piece 'The Road to Jenin').

Bushnaq has composed short and feature length film scores for a number of award-winning filmmakers. Her music has been heard at prestigious festivals including the Dubai, Seattle, and Edinburgh International Film Festivals to name a few, earning critical acclaim.

Her concert music has been performed in Europe, Canada, the United States, and the Middle East, and is listened to internationally. It includes works for solo, ensemble, choir, orchestra, and electroacoustics. Her orchestral works include a commission by 'ensemble mini' to create an Arabic-infused arrangement of Bartók's Rumänische Orchestertanz, as well as her Hakawaty (The Storyteller) Suite for Orchestra; an original composition of which select movements were performed by the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra to sold-out shows at the Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Malmö Live Konserthus, in addition to the BOZAR along with the National Orchestra of Belgium. Her music has also been performed by the Orquesta Ritornello, the Friedenauer Kammerensemble, and will be performed by the reputable Vermont Symphony Orchestra in December 2017. It is worth mentioning that Bushnaq is the one who orchestrates all of her compositions. Her discography includes Thoughts, From the Heart, and the soundtrack album for The Curve. 

An Arab-Canadian born to a Syrian mother and a Bosnian-Palestinian father, Bushnaq is one of a handful of Arab women composers in the world. She earned an entrance scholarship award from the world-renowned music composition program at Canada's top music school, McGill University, where she completed a Bachelor in Music Composition ('09). She is a member of both the Screen Composers Guild of Canada and the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and completed four years of her music education at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus, Syria.

Dustin is a composer, sound designer, audio producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the Nashville, TN area. He has spent the last ten years working in several avenues of music and audio including film, television, video games, marketing, and music education. 

Dustin began his professional studies at Western Carolina University, double majoring in Music Education and Commercial/Electronic Music. While at Western, Dustin worked with several student film makers as an on set audio engineer and composer as well as the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band as the Electronics Coordinator maintaining the band’s live sound equipment and running live sound for all performances in the 2010 season. He also worked with several high school bands as an instructor for brass, full band, and an audio electronics supervisor.
 
After his studies at WCU, Dustin attended the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program in Los Angeles, CA from 2011 to 2012. While at USC Dustin had the chance to study with composers such as Bruce Broughton, Garry Schyman, Jack Smalley, and Christopher Young. Dustin also worked with several student film makers and game makers creating original music and sound effects for films and games such as Nevermind, The High Five Apprentice, Paulie, and The Pier. After USC, Dustin worked with several composers such as Mike Kramer (Lego Ninjago), Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3), Blake Neely (The Mentalist), and Darren Fung (The Great Human Odyssey). 
As a composer and producer, Dustin has had the opportunity to write and create music of all genres as a team member on over 50 projects. From the Indie Rock score of Jason Nash is Married, the EDM and Dubstep soundtrack of Shove Pro on iOS, the Industrial Horror music of Mr. Lockjaw, and the World/Celtic and Orchestral Film Score sound of Scotch - A Golden Dream, Dustin always looks forward to the challenge of learning the sound and language of new musical genres while blending his own musical voice into his scoring work. Dustin’s music can be heard through clients such as Comedy Central, SyFy, United Launch Alliance, CBS, and Hulu.

Outside of the world of media music and audio, Dustin enjoys all opportunities to teach and work with students of all ages. Dustin has worked with award winning band programs as an electronics coordinator, sound designer, and live sound engineer for programs such as Andrews High School (Andrews, NC), Cleveland High School Performance Ensembles (Clayton, NC), and the Ola High School Marching Band (Ola, GA). Dustin’s work can range from the set up and running of live sound for WGI and AIA winds competitions to creating original productions for winter guards. Dustin returned to Western Carolina University in the summer of 2017 to lead their recently created Summer Symposium Rock and Record Track for high school and middle school students. The students worked for three days in WCU’s pristine CAT studio learning about audio engineering, music composition, and mixing techniques. The students concluded the camp by performing and engineering an original piece of music that was presented on the final day as a music video shot and produced by the camp’s media team.

Dustin is currently pursuing his MFA in Recording Arts and Technologies at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Francisco Rivera is an American composer that is teaming up with developers and producers to create immersive experiences. Hailing from Full Sail University with a bachelor’s degree in Music Production, he has a musical sensibility and versatile style that is fit for almost any kind of music you’re looking for, as well as the technical skills to ensure it sounds the best it can through your platform.

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