Chris Crilly

Chris Crilly was born in Co. Down, Ireland and educated in England and Canada. Trained in the Schola Cantorum tradition under Geoffrey Tristram, he is a Canadian musician and composer, who won a Genie Award for Best Original Score at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002 for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. (Zacharias Kunuk, 2002). He has also composed music for television series, animation and documentary films, including: Strings/Cordes (Wendy Tilby, 1991), The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith, 1992), Short Infinity (Kun Chang, 2003), Frank the Wrabbit (John Weldon, 1998) and Eckhart (John Collins 1992). Other directors for whom he has scored films include: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Brittain, Robert Duncan, Marrin Canell, and Beverly Shaffer. In 2016 he collaborated with singer/composer Tanya Tagaq on the score for Zacharias Kunuk's latest feature, Searchers.
Chris Crilly, who holds Irish and Canadian citizenships, is a former music editor at the National Film Board of Canada, and has performed and recorded with both Celtic folk and classical music ensembles in Canada, including Barde, Stan Rogers, Teresa Doyle, the St. Lawrence Choir, Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus (under Iwan Edwards), and directs the O'Carolan Chamber Orchestra. He is married to artist Catherine Farish and together they have two children: Stefania Crilly (interior designer) and Kieran Crilly (film producer/cinematographer).
Crilly is a part-time professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal.