Core Composers Score 6 Leo Award Nominations!

A huge congratulations go out to Core composers who earned a total of 6 Leo Award nominations today. Matt Rogers received 2 nominations for his scores to WORLDBREAKER and HOW TO LOSE A POPULARITY CONTEST; Hamish Thompson for his score to AINSLEY MACGREGOR MYSTERIES: A CASE FOR THE WATCHMAKER; Jeff Tymoschuk for his score to TIME HELMET; Amanda Cawley for her score to CHARLIE IS NOT A BOY; and Christopher Nickel for his score to SANDPIPERS' LAST SUPPER.

CORE COMPOSERS SCORE 7 CSA NOMINATIONS!

Congrats to: Steph Copeland - It Feeds, "Angel Shot" from Trapped in the Spotlight; Suad Bushnaq - Yunan; Tom Third - Modern Whore, The Spoils; Rob Melamed & Ryan McClarnon - Mistletoe Murders; Jesse Zubot, Josh Zubot, Jason Sharp - Mafia: Most Wanted. 

The 2026 Canadian Screen Awards will be presented as part of Canadian Screen Week 2026, which takes place from Wednesday, May 27 to Sunday in Toronto. Simulcast on CBC, CBC Gem, Crave, CTV, Global, and STACKTV May 31.

Murray Lightburn & Natalia Yanchak on CBC's Q

Listen/watch a wonderful interview with Core composer MURRAY LIGHTBURN and wife Natalia Yanchak as they talk with CBC's Tom Power about their long-running musical collaboration "The Dears".

Watch it on youTube here.

Orchestra Tools Releases KORVEN - ACOUSTIC TEXTURES OF TERROR.

Core is absolutely honoured to share the news of Orchestral Tools' latest sample library release, KORVEN - ACOUSTIC TEXTURES OF TERROR.

Named “one of cinema's scariest composers” by Film Score Monthly, Mark Korven (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Black Phone) captures his vision in a vast, terrifying, and inspiring orchestra—for folk horror, primordial dread, tense underscoring, and any kind of music that creates unease and apprehension.

Click here to purchase

And the winners of the 2025 CASMA, Best Original Song are...

Core composer STEPH COPELAND, Matthew O’Halloran & Kibra Tsegaye for ALPINE RHAPSODY. Song entitled “Trapped in the Spotlight”.

Now in its fourth year, the Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMA) is an annual celebration of composer’s excellence in scoring original music for the screen.