Daniel Scott is a Montreal born composer, orchestrator, conductor and artistic director. He started his career in advertising, composing music for commercials. In 1993, he founded his music production company and has since been creating music for films, documentaries, television series and video games. He has produced over twenty film scores and music for more than three hundred and fifty television half hours. He has also been artistic director for the French adaptation of songs of numerous Disney films and animated series. He has earned himself many awards and has been nominated at numerous occasions for his work.
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Daniel Scott was born in Montreal on a snowy Sunday evening in February. His father was a composer and his mother a classically trained pianist and both were professional studio singers. Their love of music instilled in him a life-long passion for it. From the age of five through his early teens, he worked as a singer and actor for radio and television commercials.
Faced with the choice of a career in acting or music, he chose the latter. At the age of twenty-one, following training in classical guitar and jazz vocals, he joined composer Philippe Leduc’s creative team at La 25e Piste (the Twenty-fifth Track) Studio and honed his skills on the then state-of-the-art Synclavier system. In the years that followed, he composed and produced music for countless radio and television commercials for such prestigious clients as Coca Cola, Molson, Chrysler, Eaton’s, Hyundai, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Radio-Canada.
Singing and directing vocal groups being practically a family tradition (His paternal grandfather, was a noted singer and choir director), it was perhaps inevitable that he gravitated to this particular musical field. Apart from his success as a composer, he has been in constant demand as the choral director for the French adaptations of such Warner Brothers and Disney films as Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Toy Story 2, A Christmas Carol, and numerous animated television series.
Dan’s career reached a turning point in 1993. After creating Radio-Canada’s television campaign, he decided to leave advertising and establish his own music company, Daniel Scott Productions. Since that time he has composed, orchestrated, and produced scores for over twenty feature films, a number of documentaries and video games and music for over three hundred and fifty television half-hours – shows that are seen in more than forty countries across five continents.
Dan is a five-time recipient of SOCAN’s (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) National/International Award for the “most performed Quebec composer for film and television”. He has also been nominated six times for the Gémeaux and Gemini Canadian television awards.
‘’Music for me is truly a visual art form. It’s like architecture in perpetual motion. Composing is very much like creating a painting that is constantly changing and that possesses a wonderful and unique quality: to touch and move us at the very heart of our being. And when you combine music and images, the result can be pure magic.’’
- Daniel Scott
