Older white man who is bald with a short, white beard. He wears oval glasses and a red jacket. He stands in a home office.

Phil Strong (1963 - 2022)
composer

Phil Strong was an award-winning composer and sound designer for film, dance, theatre, musical performance, art installation and educational outreach based in Toronto. Having studied at the Banff Centre For The Arts, Phil received numerous commissions and was the principal composer for Christopher House and Toronto Dance Theatre for over a decade, creating soundtracks for nine major dance productions - and earning the first ever Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Music in Dance (Timecode Break). He was subsequently nominated again for Outstanding Composition or Sound Design for EUNOIA; Denise Fujiwara’s masterpiece based on Christian Bök’s seminal book of poetry.

Working, writing and performing together since the early 90s, Phil and his partner Laurel MacDonald teamed up to score films, including Moze Mossanen’s Year Of The Lion, which earned a Gemini Award for Best Original Musical Score.

Phil produced albums for several recording artists and contributed to collections of sound & music as well as releasing soundtracks from his film scores and dance productions. Lusciana’s Lullaby, produced for Laurel MacDonald, became Echoes Radio’s Best album of 2005. Storas, which Phil produced and arranged for Mary Jane Lamond, earned an East Coast Music Award for Best Solo Album (2006).

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Phil created the soundscapes for Choreographic Gems (Elizabeth Chitty and Johanna Householder), and was an improvising musician for the durational performance work Aleatoria for Nuit Blanche 2010.