Lesley Barber

Biography

Sample Works

Lesley Barber is one of Canada’s most significant, prolific and multi-talented young composers. She began composing at the age of 10, was an award winner in Canada’s Socan National Competition for Young Composers and then went on to complete a Master’s Degree in Composition at the University of Toronto.  The score for Patricia Rozema’s award-winning film When Night Is Falling marks Barber’s outstanding film debut.

Barber has also composed music for the world premiere productions of groundbreaking Canadian plays Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love, Love and Anger, Nothing Sacred, The Warriors and Escape From Happiness (the latter two received Dora Awards for Outstanding Original Score). As a composer of new music for the concert hall her commissions include works for The Canadian Electronic Ensemble, Hemispheres, and Juno Award-winning musicians - harpist Erica Goodman, percussionist Beverly Johnston, and pianist Eve Egoyan.

Lesley’s credits include the Polygram/Propaganda feature Los Locos, (starring MarioVan Peebles), Boaz Yakin’s A Price Above Rubies (starring Renee Zellweger and Julianna Margulies) for Miramax, the Emmy Award Winning Yo-Yo Ma: Six Gestures, Good Machine’s The History of Luminous Motion, Miramax's Mansfield Park (starring Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola and Harold Pinter), the Oscar nominated You Can Count On Me (starring Matthew Broderick and Laura Linney), Little Bear for Paramount, and Mira Nair's Hysterical Blindness (starring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis).  She is also the composer for Maurice Sendak’s Emmy-award winning television series Little Bear, and Seven Little Monsters. Lesley most recently scored Sienna Film's Marion Bridge, directed by Wiebke Von Carolsfeld, which won the City TV Award For Best Canadian First Feature Film& at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.

Current films include Miramax's A Wrinkle in Time, directed by Patricia Rozema, and MGM's Molly Gunn, directed by Boaz Yakin.

COMEBACK SEASON (2006), Soulpepper Theatre Company TOP GIRLS (2007), DEATH IN LOVE (2007), KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL (2008)

2008

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