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Wayne Kelso

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Oct 26, 2024
Wayne was delighted to be invited to speak about the sound design/composing of The Belfry's production of 1939 this morning. Thanks to Michael Shamata for the invite!
B4Play - 1939
B4Play—the Belfry’s live talk show—is a collaboration between the Belfry Theatre and CBC Radio. B4Play is designed to provide insight, information, and interesting details about the upcoming Mainstage production.

CBC Radio’s Jason D'Souza interviews artists from the production, as well as experts from the community who can illuminate certain aspects of the play.

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Sept 16, 2024

Wayne's evocative music and sound design are featured as Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan's powerfully beautiful play 1939 lives on as a co-production between Canadian Stage in Toronto and The Belfry Theatre in Victoria.

Toronto dates Sept 15 - Oct 6.
Victoria dates Oct 29 - Nov 24.

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July 21, 2024

Wayne is thrilled to be returning to the Stratford Festival for his 4th season, bringing his compositional talents to the production of London Assurance, under the esteemed direction of Stratford's Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino. This classic play promises to enchant audiences, and Wayne is honored to contribute to its vibrant musical landscape. For more details, visit London Assurance.
Runs from Aug 7 till Oct 25th.

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Jan 15, 2024

Debuting successfully at the Stratford Festival in 2022, '
1939,' co-written by Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan, continues its run at YES Theatre in Sudbury, Ontario, from March 15 - 31st.
Wayne, delighted to be invited back, contributes his artistry as composer/sound designer. Stay tuned for updates on additional venues in 2024!

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Sept 1, 2023

Wayne is travelling to Victoria in Sept as composer/sound designer on Kat Sandler's wonderful play Yaga. Details at The Belfry Theatre.
Runs from Sept 12th till Oct 8th.

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April 29, 2023

Wayne has been invited to return for his 3rd season at the Stratford Festival for director Antoni Cimolino's english language world premiere of Grand Magic. Details at Grand Magic
Runs from May 5 till Sept 29th.

March 13, 2023

World Premiere film release of 1939 today.
Very proud of everyone involved!
Details at
Stratford@home

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April 16, 2022

Wayne has been invited to return to Stratford this season as composer/sound designer for the world premiere of Jani Lauzon / Kaitlyn Riordan's play 1939. Previews start in late August. Runs from August 23rd till October 29th.




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Feb 11, 2022

This is Wayne's latest release of jazz piano standards!



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Bio


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Wayne Kelso has spent the last thirty years performing, composing and producing. He has toured throughout North America with a diverse group of performers, including José Feliciano, Jimmy Rankin, Michael Burgess, Kim Stockwood, Dianne Heatherington, and Billy Newton-Davis.

Wayne, an accomplished composer and sound designer, has composed music for various theatrical productions, spanning both the realms of radio broadcasts at CBC and live theatre. Notably, next year will see him enter his fourth season of involvement with the
Stratford Festival. One of his standout achievements was the Dora award nomination in 2005 for his remarkable score in Factory Theatre's 'The Leisure Society' production..

Wayne is keenly interested in the relationship of visual imagery and music. He has spent the last seventeen years developing a real time software animation engine that explores the possibilities of this new form of artistic expression.

A complete list of credits can be found
here.

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Selected Compositional Works for Live Theatre

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Selected Works as Music Producer / Arranger

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Find Me - written/performed by Jennifer McIntosh
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Come Back This Way - written/performed by Ryan Van Belleghem
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I Don't See You At All - written/performed by The Tone Crooks
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Angel Eyes - written by Gord MacBain feat. Jason Simmons
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Till You're Mine - written by Gord MacBain feat. Jason Simmons
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All Over You - written by Gord MacBain feat. Laura Lynn Mergel
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King of Hearts - written by Gord MacBain feat. Neil Donell
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The Joke - written by Brandi Carlile. Performed by Missy Jacobson
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Watch - Solo/Trio Jazz Piano


Photography

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Transcriptions


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A complete transcription of Wayne Kelso's solo piano recording of Jimi Hendrix's classic song 'Little Wing'.
  • 9 pages
  • Level: Advanced
  • Format: pdf
  • File Size: 218K
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Visual Music


Wayne has always been a keen student of the symbiotic relationship between music and light. As a young boy, he was fascinated by the piano players who performed live to silent pictures. He wondered if it would be possible to invert that relationship by empowering the pianist to somehow paint onto the screen the visual imagery that musicians hold in their mind's eye.

In 1995, Wayne began his journey. Completely self taught, he immersed himself in various computer programming languages and 3D animation theory and set out to build a real time software animation engine uniquely suited to his own musical and visual sensibilities.

The work has evolved over the years alongside of the technological advancements of 3D graphics hardware. Wayne is currently experimenting with a new musical deep learning / neural net interface that shows promising results….stay tuned!
© 2024 Wayne Kelso
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