Claudio Vena - Shaw Festival Theatre

SHAW 2026: Music Director, Original Music & Sound Designer, Heartbreak House. FOR THE SHAW: music director/composer/sound designer for Gnit, Everybody, Desire Under the Elms, Victory, The Magician’s Nephew and, Saint Joan. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: currently music director/conductor, Phoenix Orchestra; guest conductor Windsor Symphony; music director/arranger, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, music director/composer, King John, Romeo and Juliet, Peter Pan, Hamlet, Stratford; composer, Romeo and Juliet, Canadian Stage; arranger/conductor, Metropolitan Opera’s Louis Quillico CD Ricordi d’Italia; conductor/music director, Symphony On The Bay, Hart House String and Wind Ensembles, Huronia Symphony; assistant conductor, Miss Saigon (Toronto), Hart House Orchestra. FILM/TELEVISION: movie scores include TO in 24 (Gemini award, best original music), Road to the Lemon Grove, Silver Man, Boy Meets Girl, two tracks in Norman Jewison’s Only You; music for CBC’s television news shows. Founder/original member, Quartetto Gelato. Performed with Bocelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Rod Stewart and many others. Record producer, Ensemble Vivant. AWARDS: Gemini, NPR’s Debut Artist, two Juno nominations. Recently released recording, Phoenix Rising, CBC records the week on programme, Concert On Demand.