Dedrick, Christopher 1947- (Chris Dedrick)

PERSONAL

Born September 12, 1947; son of Art Dedrick (a trumpet player, music arranger, and band leader); mother, a music teacher and musician. Education: Manhattan School of Music, B.Mus., music education.

Addresses:

Manager—Marks Management, 1030 Mission Ridge Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Career:

Composer, orchestrator, conductor, sound editor, musician, singer, and recording artist. Toronto Sound, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, president and chief executive officer. Free Design (musical group), cofounder in the 1960s, singer, arranger, and composer; composer for the choral group, the Star-Scape Singers; composer and music arranger for the group Canadian Brass, including the albums All You Need Is Love, The Canadian Brass Plays Bernstein, and A Christmas Experiment; Canadian Film Orchestra, founder and director. Producer of commercials; producer of record albums and occasional studio musician; music arranger for other performers, including Barry Mann, James Taylor, Kenny Loggins, Mary Clayton, Melissa Manchester, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Tony Orlando and Dawn; performer in musical concerts. Patrons of Wisdom, board member. Military service: U.S. Air Force, chief musical arranger for Airmen of Note in the 1970s.

Member:

Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (past member of executive board), Guild of Canadian Film Composers (past member of executive board).

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award, best original music score for a television program or series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1996, for Million Dollar Babies; Gemini Award, best original music score for a dramatic television series, 1997, for Road to Avonlea; Hot Docs Award, best score, 1997, and Gemini Award, 1998, both for Shipwreck!; Gemini Award, best original music score for a television documentary program or series, 1998, for Great Adventures of the 20th Century; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a television program or miniseries, 1998, for The Arrow; Gemini Award nominations, best original music score for a dramatic television series, 1998, 1999, both for Emily of New Moon; Golden Reel Award nomination, best sound editing for a television movie or special, Motion Picture Sound Editors, 2001, for Deadly Appearances; Golden Reel Award nomination, best sound editing for a television movie or special, Motion Picture Sound Editors, 2001, for Love and Murder; Gemini Award nomination (with Patrick Roach), best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2002, for Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2003, for No Night Is Too Long; Genie Award, best achievement in music—original score, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 2003, for The Saddest Music in the World; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2004, for Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2004, for Elizabeth Rex; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a dramatic series, 2004, for The Shields Stories; CBC Arts Alternative Walk of Fame, 2005; Gemini Award nomination, best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2006, for The Man Who Lost Himself; Gemini Award, best original music score for a program or miniseries, 2007, for The Great Polar Bear Adventure.

CREDITS

Film Orchestrator:

Firstborn (also known as First Born and Moving In), Paramount, 1984.

Brighton Beach Memoirs (also known as Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs"), Universal, 1986.

Dream Lover, 1986.

Jaws: The Revenge (also known as Jaws 4), Universal, 1987.

1969, Atlantic Entertainment Group, 1988.

See You in the Morning, Warner Bros., 1989.

Mountains of the Moon, TriStar, 1990.

Mobsters (also known as The Evil Empire), Universal, 1991.

Consenting Adults, Buena Vista, 1992.

Matusalem, National Film Board of Canada, 1993.

La Florida, Vivafilm, 1993.

Wagons East, TriStar, 1994.

Dream Lover, Gramercy, 1994.

Destiny in Space (short documentary), IMAX Corp., 1994.

The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove), A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994.

The Saddest Music in the World, IFC Films, 2003.

Film Conductor:

The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove), A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994.

Robin of Locksley, Hallmark Home Entertainment, 1996.

The Ice Storm, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997.

The Saddest Music in the World, IFC Films, 2003.

Film Work; Other:

Vocal music performer, Ontario Pavilion Expo 86, 1986.

Musician: trumpet, The Muskeg Combo, The Saddest Music in the World, 2003.

Television Orchestrator; Series:

The Ray Bradbury Theatre (also known as The Bradbury Trilogy, Mystery Theatre, La monde fantastique de Ray Bradbury, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and Ray Bradbury presents), HBO, 1985-87, then USA Network, 1987-93.

Dracula: The Series, syndicated, 1990.

Rupert, YTV, 1991.

Road to Avonlea (also known as Avonlea and Tales from Avonlea), CBC and The Disney Channel, 1995-96.

Emily of New Moon, CBC, 1997-2000.

The City, CTV, 1999.

Television Orchestrator; Miniseries:

Queen (also known as Alex Haley's "Queen"), CBS, 1993.

Streets of Laredo (also known as Larry McMurtry's "Streets of Laredo"), CBS, 1995.

Shipwreck! (also known as Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald), Discovery Channel, 1995.

The Arrow (also known as Project Arrow), CBC, 1997.

"Women Adventurers," Lady Spy, Discovery Channel, c. 2000.

Television Conductor; Miniseries:

Everest, 2007.

Television Work; Movies:

Orchestrator, Nobody's Child, CBS, 1986.

Conductor, Dieppe, CBC, 1993.

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Family Channel, CTV, and Black Entertainment Television, 1994.

Under the Piano, Lifetime, 1995.

Orchestrator, Captive Heart: The James Mink Story, CBS, 1996.

Orchestrator, Lyddie, CBC and BBC, 1996.

Orchestrator, Robin of Locksley, Showtime, 1996.

Music editor, Love and Murder (also known as Criminal Instincts: Love and Murder and Le prix du silence), CTV and Lifetime, 2000.

Music editor, Deadly Appearances (also known as Criminal Instincts: Deadly Appearances and Crimes et passion), CTV and Lifetime, 2000.

Conductor, Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (also known as Le torse and Torso), CTV, 2001.

Conductor, Walter and Henry, Showtime, 2001.

Music conductor and additional orchestrator, Stolen Miracle, Lifetime, 2001.

Musician, Tripping Wire, Lifetime, 2005.

Score vocalist, In God's Country (also known as The Ultimate Sin), 2007.

Song performer and score performer, Gossip, Lifetime, 2008.

Television Work; Specials:

Music conductor and orchestrator, Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye, HBO, 1998.

Orchestrator, Aliens: Are We Alone?, 1998.

Orchestrator, Great Adventures of the 20th Century, 1999.

Music conductor, Mary Cassatt: American Impressionist, HBO, 1999.

Television Orchestrator; Episodic:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, USA Network, 1988-89.

"Plato's Atlantis," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Discovery Channel, 1995.

"Secrets of the Gobi," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Discovery Channel, 1995.

"Submarine Disasters," Nuclear Sharks, 1998.

"Canal," Lady Spy, 2000.

Also orchestrator for "Jeanne Maranda," Our Stories, CBC; Ivanhoe; Kung Fu—The Legend Continues.

RECORDINGS

Albums (With Free Design):

Kites Are Fun, Project 3 Records, 1967.

You Could Be Born Again, Project 3 Records, 1968.

Heaven/Earth, Project 3 Records, 1969.

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love, Project 3 Records, 1970.

The Free Design Sing for Very Important People, Project 3 Records, 1970.

One by One, Project 3 Records, 1971.

There Is a Song, Ambrotype, 1972.

Kites Are Fun: The Best of the Free Design, Varese, 1998.

The Free Design—Cosmic Peekaboo, Lamplighter Music, 2001.

Other albums with Free Design include Best of the Free Design.

Albums (as a Solo Artist):

Recorded Be Free.

Singles:

"Kits Are Fun/The Proper Ornaments," Project 3 Records, 1967.

"You Be You and I'll Be Me/Never Tell the World," Project 3 Records, 1968.

"Umbrellas/I Found Love," Project 3 Records, 1968.

"Make the Madness Stop/Eleanor Rigby," Project 3 Records, 1968.

"Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)/Christmas Is the Day," Project 3 Records, 1968.

"You Could Be Born Again/A Leaf Has Veins," Project 3 Records, 1969.

"Ellen Dedrick: Nature Boy/Settlement Boy," Project 3 Records, 1969.

"Where Do I Go/Girls Alone," Project 3 Records, 1969.

"Dorian Benediction/Summertime," Project 3 Records, 1969.

"2002 a Hit Song/Hurry Sundown," Project 3 Records, 1969.

"Butterflies Are Free/My Very Own Angel," Project 3 Records, 1970.

"Don't Cry Baby/Time and Love," Project 3 Records, 1970.

"A Friendly Man/Stay Off Your Frown," Project 3 Records, c. 1971.

WRITINGS

Film Scores:

Pigeons (also known as The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1971.

(As Chris Dedrick) The Happiness Cage (also known as The Demon Within, Mind Snatchers, and The Mind Snatchers), Cinerama Releasing, 1972.

Ontario Pavilion Expo 86, 1986.

The Planet of Junior Brown (also known as Junior's Groove), A-pix Entertainment/Evergreen Entertainment, 1994.

Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien, United International Pictures, 1998.

The Saddest Music in the World, IFC Films, 2003.

Childstar, Hart Sharp Video, 2004.

I, Claudia, Mongrel Media, 2004.

My Dad Is 100 Years Old (documentary short), 2005.

Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story (also known as La longue absence), Monarch Home Video, 2005.

Dancing Waters (short), 2006.

A Broken Life, Seven Arts Pictures, 2007.

Also wrote scores for Close Relations, Dirty Mouth (also known as The Lenny Bruce Story); Full Circle; One Heart; West on Queen Street, Canadian Film Academy.

Television Music; Series:

The Ray Bradbury Theatre (also known as The Bradbury Trilogy, Mystery Theatre, La monde fantastique de Ray Bradbury, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and Ray Bradbury presente), HBO, 1985-87, then USA Network, 1987-93.

Dracula: The Series, syndicated, 1990.

Road to Avonlea (also known as Tales from Avonlea and Avonlea), CBC and The Disney Channel, 1995-96.

Emily of New Moon, CBC, 1997-2000.

The City, CTV, 1999.

Television Music; Miniseries:

(As Chris Dedrick) Glory! Glory!, HBO, 1989.

Million Dollar Babies, CBS, 1994.

Shipwreck! (also known as Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald), Discovery Channel, 1995.

The Arrow, CBC, 1997.

"Women Adventurers," Lady Spy, Discovery Channel, c. 2000.

Counterforce, 2000.

Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, CBC, 2003.

Everest, 2007.

Television Additional Music; Miniseries:

Hitler: The Rise of Evil (also known as Hitler: La naissance du mal), CBS, 2003.

Television Music; Movies:

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad, Family Channel, CTV, and Black Entertainment Television, 1994.

Under the Piano, Lifetime, 1995.

This Matter of Marriage (also known as Harlequin's "This Matter of Marriage" and le mariage a tout prix), The Movie Channel, 1998.

The Witness Files, Cinemax, 1999.

The Courage to Love, Lifetime, 2000.

Love and Murder (also known as Criminal Instincts: Love and Murder), CTV and Lifetime, 2000.

Deadly Appearances (also known as Criminal Instincts: Deadly Appearances), CTV and Lifetime, 2000.

The Press Run, Showtime, 2000.

Walter and Henry, Showtime, 2001.

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (also known as Le torse and Torso), CTV, 2001.

Tripping Wire, Lifetime, 2005.

The Stranger I Married, Lifetime, 2005.

A Dad for Christmas, Lifetime, 2006.

Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story, CTV, 2006.

The Great Polar Bear Adventure, Animal Planet, 2006.

In God's Country (also known as The Ultimate Sin), Lifetime, 2007.

She Drives Me Crazy, Lifetime, 2007.

Gossip, Lifetime, 2008.

Television Songs; Movies:

She Drives Me Crazy, Lifetime, 2007.

Gossip, Lifetime, 2008.

Television Additional Music Adaptation; Movies:

Under the Piano, Lifetime, 1996.

Television Music; Specials:

Taking Care of Terrific, PBS, 1987.

Aliens: Are We Alone?, 1998.

Great Adventures of the 20th Century: Lawrence of Arabia (documentary), Discovery Channel, 1999.

Jackie Kennedy: The Power of Style, 1999.

Master of the Abyss, 1999.

Charles Lindbergh: The Lone Eagle, 1999.

Grand Canyon, 1999.

Arctic Disaster, 1999.

The Panama Canal, 1999.

Submarine Disasters, Discovery Channel, 1999.

History Happened Here, 2000.

Kidnapped: Frank Sinatra Jr. (documentary), History Channel, 2001.

Counter Force, The Learning Channel, 2001.

Ancient Earthquakes: Sunken Cities, Discovery Channel, 2001.

(As Chris Dedrick) Cuban Missile Crisis: Secret Subs, 2002.

A Hero to Me, 2002.

Cruiseship Rescue (documentary), Discovery Channel, 2003.

Genius Sperm Bank, 2004.

Oil Tanker Inferno, National Geographic, 2004.

Exorcists: The True Story (documentary), Discovery Channel, 2004.

Tanker Time Bomb (documentary), 2005.

True Bond (documentary), 2007.

Television Music; Episodic:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, USA Network, 1988-89.

"Plato's Atlantis," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Discovery Channel, 1995.

"Secrets of the Gobi," Fabulous Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Discovery Channel, 1995.

"Submarine Disasters," Nuclear Sharks, 1998.

"Canal," Lady Spy, 2000.

Also wrote music for "Jeanne Maranda," Our Stories, CBC; Ivanhoe; Kung Fu—The Legend Continues; The Twilight Zone.

Video Games Scores:

Tender Loving Care, Aftermath Media, 1998.

Other Music:

Mother and Child (suite for brass quintet and choir), 1994.

Awakenings (double concerto), 1994.

Fantasies for Anna, 1995.

Entre nous, 1995.

Composer (with Kenneth G. Mills) of The Fire Mass (for a capella voices).

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic:

Chris Dedrick Website,http://www.chrisdedrick.com, September 3, 2008.