Hans Peter Strobl (January 22, 1942 - July 21, 2007) was an
Austria
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Canadian
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Genie Award
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Jutra Award
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A native of
Vienna
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, Austria, he began his career as chief recording engineer for the
Vienna Symphony
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."Strobl wins the `triple crown of sound’" '' Playback'', May 9, 1994. Moving to Canada in 1972 after meeting and marrying Louise Gariépy, he began working in film, first with Cinelume and later joining the
National Film Board of Canada
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in 1979. He remained with the NFB until 1991, when his greater interest in working on theatrical features led him to launch his own film recording and production facility, Marko Film, with Jean-Charles Tremblay in 1991.
In 1994, he became the first Canadian recording engineer ever to win all three of Canada's major film and television sound awards in the same year, winning a Genie for ''
The Sex of the Stars
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(Le Sexe des étoiles)'', a
Gemini Award
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for the English-language television miniseries '' The Boys of St. Vincent'' and a Gémeaux Award for the French-language television miniseries ''Shehaweh''.
He died in 2007, having worked on over 400 films over the course of his career. He had two sons, film recording engineer
Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Bernard Gariépy Strobl is a Canadian re-recording sound mixer, best known internationally as the supervising re-recording mixer of '' Arrival'' (2016), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Sound (shared with Claude La Haye and Sylvain Belle ...
and
Cirque du Soleil
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