Phil Strong is an award winning sound designer, composer and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He works in film, dance, theatre, musical performance and art installation. Since studying at the Banff Centre For The Arts, Phil has received numerous commissions and has been the principal composer for Christopher House and Toronto Dance Theatre since 1999, creating soundtracks for nine major dance productions - earning the first ever Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Music in Dance. In 2000, Strong collaborated with John Oswald to design a 14 channel surround sound system and composition for the multiscreen video installation, Stress, by Bruce Mau. This piece debuted at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) and continues to be exhibited internationally. More recently, Phil again collaborated with Oswald to create A Time To Hear For Here - a permanent 35-channel audio installation in the Crystal wing of the Royal Ontario Museum.
In 2003, Phil teamed up with partner Laurel MacDonald to compose music for Moze Mossanen’s film, Year Of The Lion, earning a Gemini Award for Best Original Musical Score. The following year, Phil generated a combined sound design and musical score for Ali Kazimi’s film, Continuous Journey, which was awarded the Golden Sheaf award at the Yorkton Film Festival for Best Original Music and generated two more Gemini nominations; one for Best Music and another for Best Sound. In 2010 Phil picked up a Gemini for his original score to Cat Ladies. Phil Strong has produced albums for recording artists and contributes to several collections of sound & music as well as releasing soundtracks from his film scores and dance productions. Lusciana’s Lullaby, produced for Laurel MacDonald, became Echoes Radio’s Best album of 2005. Storas, which Phil produced and arranged for Mary Jane Lamond, earned an East Coast Music Award for Best Solo Album (2006). Phil instructs the Film Sound & Music course at The Audio
Recording Academy and is known to perform on the T.O.O.B. - an electro-acoustic instrument of his own design.
