Beautiful Unicorn

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Brendan McGuigan

Instrumentalist/Sound Designer/Composer/Musical Director
brendanmcguigan@shaw.ca
 
Education

2004-2006 - Mount Royal College (Calgary, AB)
           Diploma - Jazz performance - double bass (w. distinction)

Professional Music Experience


Oct. 2006 - Feb. 2007 - Carnival Cruise Lines (Miami, FL)
           Showband Bassist, Carnival Imagination

Feb 2007 - June 2009 - Saks' Music (Calgary, AB)
          Guitar/bass teacher

Feb 2007 - Present - Self Employed
           Freelance Bassist
           Selected performance credits:
                        Greg Cockerill (www.gregcockerill.com)
                        Matt Masters (www.mattmasters.com)
          Brent Mah (www.brentmah.com)
                        Dave McCann (www.davemccann.com)
          Sam Masterton (www.sammasterton.com)

Professional Theatre Experience

       As Musical Director

2008 - “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” – Sage Theatre (Dir. Kelly Reay)
          o Betty Mitchell Award Nominations:
           Outstanding musical direction
           Outstanding production of a musical

       As Sound Designer/ Composer

2008 – “One Flea Spare” – Sage Theatre (Dir. Geoffrey Ewert)
         o Betty Mitchell Award Nomination – Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

2007 – “Lion In The Streets” – Sage Theatre (Dir. Kate Newby)
         o Betty Mitchell Award Nomination – Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

2007 – Sound Designer/Composer – “Music For Contortionist” – Sage Theatre (Dir. Glenda Sterling)
         o Betty Mitchell Award – Outstanding Sound Design/Composition

2008 - “Suddenly Last Summer” – Mount Royal College Theatre Department (Dir. Vanessa Porteous)
 
2008 - "The Attic, The Pearls, and Three Fine Girls” – Sage Theatre (Dir. Rob Moffat)

       As Session Musician

2009 - "The Piper" - Downstage Theatre (Dir. Simon Mallet)

2009 - "Fiddler On the Roof" - St. Mary's University Theatre Department (Dir. Marilyn Potts)

References

Available upon request