TORONTO, ON

Tel. 6473894837

Michelle Lorimer

Michelle Lorimer is a composer for screen and concert stage. She loves to bring her diverse background of musical styles into any given project and has scored music for short and feature length documentaries by Toronto filmmakers, such as Loud and Here & Words Left Unspoken (dir. Josiane Blanc), and When I Go Outside (dir. Geordie Sabbagh). She has worked as assistant composer to Canadian screen composer Bruce Fowler, scoring cues for Bug Sex, It’s Complicated, an episode of CBC’s The Nature of Things (dir. Andrew Gregg), and she’s currently scoring an upcoming documentary by Toronto director Chrisann Hessing.

Top Credits

*LOUD AND HERE, Citizen Minutes II short doc (premiered at HotDocs 2023; streaming on CBC GEM), dir. by Josiane Blanc.


*"BUG SEX - IT'S COMPLICATED!" documentary for CBC's The Nature of Things, (aired March 2023; streaming on CBC GEM) dir. by Andrew Gregg. Role: assistant composer to Bruce Fowler.


*WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN, feature-length documentary, (premiered at ReelWorld 2024), dir. by Josiane Blanc (2023).


*WHEN I GO OUTSIDE, feature-length documentary, (streaming on Amazon Prime UK), dir. by Geordie Sabbagh (2022).


*FARM-ACIST, short doc, (screened at Toronto Short Film Festival), dir. by Claire Lloyd & Allie Fripps (2023)


EXPERIENCE / ABILITIES

Children, Documentary, Drama, Educational, Lifestyle

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

Arranger, Composer, Lyricist, Orchestrator, Songwriter

LANGUAGE

English, French

PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETIES

SOCAN

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE / INFORMATION

In addition to her work for screen, Michelle enjoys composing concert music. Her works for instrumental ensembles have been performed by the Allegra Chamber Orchestra, the Sonority Sisters, Duo Holz, the Peterborough Concert Band, the NU Quintet (NYC), and read by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Michelle is a classically trained pianist and also plays acoustic guitar. She studied music and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Humber College in Toronto.

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