At one point in his life, Darren used to be a really good piano player. Then he decided to compose: at the age of fifteen he first wrote for orchestra as part of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s project, and it all went downhill from there. Darren completed his Bachelor of Music degree in 2002 at McGill University. He is also an alum of the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, the Aspen Music Festival and School and Tapestry New Opera Works’ Composer-Librettist Laboratory. 

He is currently the Second Vice President of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada. In that capacity he has led numerous professional development opportunities for screen composers across Canada, collaborating with the Canadian Film Centre, the Institut nationale de l’image et du son, the Atlantic Film Festival, the Glenn Gould School, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, and Symphony Nova Scotia. 

Amongst his many film and television credits, he was responsible for the recreation of Canada’s second national anthem, the beloved Hockey Theme for CTV and TSN, recording with members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; he was the composer for Bell Canada’s Orchestra spot, voted as Canada’s top commercial of 2010 by the Globe and Mail. He is now based in Los Angeles, and is represented by Maria Machado of the prestigious Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.

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