"If we're ever offered an opportunity to jam with alien creatures, you're the guy we should send". -Spider Robinson
In 1990, Schaun moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he has won numerous awards and nominations for a wide variety of international film and television projects which include "Intelligence", "Terminal City", "Da Vinci's Inquest", "The Quality of Life", "Facing Ali", "Da Vinci's City Hall", "The Life", and "Hard Core Logo" (IMDB). Macleans magazine announced "Intelligence" as the best Canadian television series of the decade. The soundtrack album for "Intelligence" is now available here. "Facing Ali" was shortlisted for a 2010 Academy Award, and was awarded "Best BC Film 2009" by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
"Fathers & Sons" won the "2010 BC Best Film Award" by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, and Schaun won the 2011 Leo Award for "Best Music Score for a Feature Film". Schaun's Score for "Mighty Jerome" also won the 2011 Leo Award for "Best Music Score for a Feature Documentary", as well as the 2011 Leo Award for "Best Feature Documentary". The soundtrack for "Mighty Jerome" can be heard here.
Through the 1980's, based in London, England, Schaun composed and performed primarily for film, television, and contemporary dance. Projects included The Lost Jockey (http://home.planet.nl/~frankbri/ot_opt011.htm), Steve Reich, Mark Lockett, The London Contemporary Dance Theatre Company, The London Youth Dance Theatre Company, Second Stride Dance Company, recordings with John Wilkinson, films with Stephen Dwoskin, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. The Lost Jockey's 2nd album "Professor Slack" was recorded at the legendary Studio 2, at Abbey Road Studios, and produced by the visionary John Leckie (George Harrison/Pink Floyd/Radiohead). Between 1982 and 1986, Schaun was appointed 'Composer in Residence' for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. He received additional commissions from the Dreamtiger Ensemble, the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, and from the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. His 1982 work "All Change" for the Berlin-based artist Martin Riches continues to receive performances and broadcasts worldwide, including "A Noise in Your Eye" Sound Sculpture Exhibition at London's Barbican Centre, and at the University of Tokyo's Komaba Museum in May 2008. Schaun was a co-founder of the band Man Jumping whose first album "Jump Cut" was voted as an international 1984 'Best Top 10 Album' by Time Out (John Gill, London), The Guardian (Robin Denselow), and The Times (Richard Williams), and was given a full **** rating by the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (www.musikzirkus.eu). Man Jumping toured extensively, performing in such diverse venues as Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Sadler's Wells Theatre, the Cologne Opera House, London's Africa Centre and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. On signing an extensive recording contract with Editions EG (Virgin), home to Brian Eno, Roxy Music, and Killing Joke, Man Jumping recorded another album "World Service" with prodigious engineer Philip Bagenall.
Prior to 1980, Schaun studied music at the Guildhall College of Music, the University of Sussex (B.A.Honours in Music & M.A. in Music), and at the University of California (San Diego) on a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship.
