About – Pine Productions

Katya Pine, Mus.Bac.
Composer

Katya Pine composes original music for screen, stage and concert. Her projects range from documentaries, sci-fi, indie film, tv to art songs, opera, theatre and more. Katya is passionate about expressing the human condition through original music and brings her eclectic styles and approaches to the needs of each project. A recent recipient of a Canada Council grant, she completed composing the 3-Act Opera “More Than a Queen”, on the life of Josephine Bonaparte as told from the feminist perspective in a libretto by f.g. klingenberg.

Katya writes extensively for voice. Song cycles: “A Salutation to Life” for soprano, piano, sitar and tambura performed on CBC radio’s ‘Music Toronto’ with soprano, Esther Ewing and “The Garden Going on Without Us” containing many jazz underpinnings, as featured on her CD “Taking Flight”, available on iTunes and here. Selected vocal compositions appear in the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) Vocal Syllabus.

Katya received her composition degree from the University of Toronto, with post graduate studies in London, England, as a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s prestigious Floyd Chalmers award. She is an affiliate composer of the Canadian Music Center, Canadian League of Composers, Screen Composers Guild of Canada and the Association of Canadian Women Composers.

Katya is based in British Columbia, Canada.

Choral Composition	Commissioned by Ensemble ArtChoral. Choral composition for a poem from “Dialect of Distant Harbors” by Dipika Mukherjee. To be performed and recorded during summer 2023. Funded by Canada Council for the Arts. Ensemble ArtChoral
New Theatrical Work	Collaborating with author and trauma-relief therapist Marcia Jacobs, to create a new work based on her blog about rape culture and women's experiences witnessed first hand during the war in Bosnia and Sarajevo.

Live Horseracing	Theme music, CTV’s SportsNet, Calgary Alberta
A Home Away from Home	Three part television documentary by Black Media Works Inc.
Waiting	Film by Knottingham Productions
The Girl Who Married a Ghost	Screen play, Blue Moon Productions
Toronto Haunts & The Bettee Show	Television pilots by In Darker Productions (Co-composed with Sean Bray)
Tradition with a Twist	Television pilot, BluePine Productions
Puppet	Short indie animation film by Raf Anzovin and Dave Boutilier
The Forerunner	SciFi indie film, written and directed by Max Train
The Moving Child I & II	Films by Hana Kamea Kemble

Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s (CNCM) publication series “Northern Lights”, (2007 - 2009)
	“Around Again”, Level 1 Repertoire “Zeke’s Video Game Adventure” Level 1 Repertoire “Cool Cat Waltz”, Level 4 Repertoire & RCM new piano series “Jazz at the Bistro”, Level 5 Repertoire, Grade 7 2015 RCM Syllabus
Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s publication series “Making Tracks”, (2006 - 2008)
	"The Trains at Palmerston”, Advanced piano solo and level 10 RCM substitution list “Ghost Town”, Intermediate piano solo
	These Pedagogical piano solos are compiled in the music book, “Images”

A Ring of Rhymes	Commissioned Cantata for soprano, tenor, small chamber ensemble and optional equal-voiced choir, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
The Garden Going on Without Us	Song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, set to the poetry of well-known Canadian poet and 2011 Order of Canada recipient, Lorna Crozier. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus for advanced study.
Wild Birds	Song cycle for mezzo soprano, piano and alto flute, text by Lorna Crozier.
A Piece of Alligator Pie	Song cycle for soprano and piano, composed to words by the popular Canadian children’s poet, Dennis Lee. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus.
A Salutation to Life	Song cycle for soprano, piano, sitar and tamboura.
	“A Piece of Alligator Pie” and “A Salutation to Life” were performed by Katya with Esther Ewing, soprano, on CBC’s “Music Toronto”, in a broadcast dedicated to Katya’s music. Hosted by Barbara Smith.
Uma	Music for the opera/musical “Uma”, co-composed with Kate Major and librettist Virginia Nemetz.
Wood Sleeves	Commissioned by Vancouver's Erato Ensemble to create an arrangement of this art song. Performed by the Ensemble, February 2019. www.EratoEnsemble.com The text of this work written by and dedicated to the late poet Mary Aitken.

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Katya Pine, Mus.Bac. Composer

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Composer