GOOD NEWS: Amanda Cawley Wins SOCAN Foundation Award

Amanda Cawley is an award-winning orchestral composer known for crafting fantastical themes for Film, Television and Games. A huge congratulations to Amanda for receiving the Grand Prize at the SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards in December for her score to the short animation OSTINATO.

In 2024, Amanda received two Canadian Screen Music Awards: Best Original Score for Animated Series or Special (Ostinato) and Best Original Score for Games and Interactive Media (Siegebreaker). She was also nominated for Best Original Score for Documentary Series (Visionary Gardeners). Amanda has previously won a Leo Award in 2022 for Best Musical Score in a Documentary Series (Visionary Gardeners) and received recognition for Best Original Score (Never Broken) at the 2023 Best Shorts Competition Award.

Additionally, she has been nominated for Leo Awards in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 in various categories, including Best Musical Score in a Documentary Series and Short Drama. Amanda was recognized by the SOCAN Foundation as the grand prize winner of the 2024 Emerging Screen Composer Awards.

Her portfolio includes a variety of media, including 104 episodes of the globally-distributed animated TV series Fireman Sam and 20 episodes of the documentary series Ageless Gardens for which she received nominations for Best Original Music, Non-Fiction at the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards and Canadian Screen Music Awards.

She participated in the Screen Composer Academy’s 2022 Film and Games Composer Intensive in Athens, Greece, hosted by Richard Bellis, and received mentorship from Garry Schyman, Jeff Atmajian, and Miriam Cutler, earning a Film and Game Scoring Certificate of Excellence. Amanda holds a Diploma in Contemporary Music and Technology from Selkirk College and has completed Level 10 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in History, Theory, and Piano Performance.

Amanda works out of her studio in British Columbia, Canada, and collaborates with clients and orchestras around the world.