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| Popular As | David G. Burns |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Age | years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 14, 1788 () |
| Birthday | April 14 |
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David G. Burns’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
David G. Burns was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.
I am Canadian composer living in Ottawa Canada. I studied piano from the age of 6, following the Royal Conservatory of Toronto piano program through a private tutor. My grandmother on my mother's side was an accomplished pianist, performing at competitions in Quebec.
Her living room piano was my first introduction to the world of music. I would sit and play for hours, content to plow ahead and compose by ear. I acquired my first guitar at age 13 and that instrument became my world until the age of 20.
I became really interested in recording while playing in bands in my teens through my 20's. I became fairly fluent around a studio setting, having learned on a cassette 4 track that was synced up to a Roland MC500 sequencer.
That studio morphed many years later into a well equipped compose environment as one would expect from a TV/film composer. Ottawa has always been a hub for animation, and I got my first compose assignment writing for a show called 'The Untalkative Bunny' for Dynomite Cartoons.
The bunny never talked, but the music was a cool cross section of 60's cool jazz lounge kitsch that secured a string of projects for a variety of other TV shows. Around the same time, I wrote the music for a cool show called 'Cook like a Chef' for Knight Enterprises.
This show revealed the behind the scenes of a high end chef station and marked a radical new style in what we could expect from the Food Genre. That show went on to include well over a hundred episodes.
Another notable show was called 'Junk Bros' which garnered enough attention in the US to have shows commissioned for the US market as well. Another string of shows included 'Me, My House and I', 'Design U' and 'Selling Big' for Tim Alp and Mountain Road Productions.
'Design U' had four seasons produced, as did 'Me My House and I'. I got my first start working in film with Derek Diorio and Distinct Features, notably 'House of Luk'. Other films which came later included 'Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal' and 'A Maiden Danced to Death', both for Michael Dobbin's Quiet Revolution Pictures.
I did a brief stint working with Neil Bregman on a few made for television films such as 'The Stepson' and 'Another Man's Wife'. Ottawa has a large Franco-Ontarian culture, and the french language production community is entrepreneurial and hard working.
Very early in my career, I met Marie-Pierre Gariépy and Martin Cadotte of Slalom Productions. Slalom has produced hundreds of episodes of television for the french language market, and I have contributed the music for shows such as 'Destination Nor'Ouest', 'Ruée vers L'or', 'Motel Monstre', 'Toi et Moi' and most recently 'Mehdi et Val' and 'La Malediction de Johnathan Plourde'.
In late 2006 or so, Dave Cooper and Johnny Ryan created a short called' Pig Goat Banana Cricket' under the Nickelodeon shorts program. The short ended up across the desk of Executive Producer David Saks (The Simpsons, Third Rock from the Sun), who saw the show get green lit and two seasons comprising forty episodes were produced.
I was honored with a Daytime Emmy Nomination for my work on 'Pig Goat'. It was a blend of athletic orchestral music paired with high voltage heavy metal. Mostly by happenstance then anything else, I have written music for a fairly wide variety of programming genres including animation, English and French scripted drama, lifestyle and reality, documentaries, made for television film and theatrical film.
I have been fortunate to have been the main composer on nearly 900 episodes of television. Each show brings with it new discoveries of what music lies beneath the surface waiting to come to light.
