Shawn Pierce is a

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and

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

composer. He has resided in Vancouver, Los Angeles and Winnipeg.

Career

Pierce is a graduate of the

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

in Boston, where he majored in Film Scoring. He has worked as a music editor and composer on various TV series, garnering multiple award nominations, including a

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nomination for the film ''

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'' in 2004 and three

nominations for work on '' The Dead Zone'' in 2007. In 2006, he provided the music for the Canadian documentary series ''

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'', for which he received a Gemini nomination (Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series 2008). In 2015, he was also nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Music Score for a Series for his work on the show ''Haven''. At the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema, Shawn Pierce received The Marshall Hawkins Award in 2015 for Best Original Score for his work on the movie Euphoria. Over the last 20 years, Pierce has worked on many records with credits for mixing, engineering and producing, including

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's album ''Joyful'' (2009) on which he also played guitar and trumpet, and supplied backing vocals. His work on albums stopped in 2008 and he subsequently focused all of his time on scoring. His credits include the scores for the dramatic science fiction series ''Defying Gravity'' (2009), the 2012 documentary film, ''

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'', and the 2018 Canadian drama film ''

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''. He is a co-founder of the entertainment tech start-up WIO, which launched a new service, WIOpro, at the start of 2022. This service monitors what film and television titles are aired across 55 countries and allows those entitled to royalties from these titles to track if they are being accurately compensated.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierce, Shawn Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Berklee College of Music alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Canadian musicians missing province or territory Canadian audio engineers Canadian television composers