Dave Pierce

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Dave Pierce (born October 24, 1972)

Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction in 2010.[2] He was also the arranger for Twyla Tharp's Frank Sinatra musical Come Fly Away, which opened in March of 2010 in New York at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway and later that year as Sinatra Dance With Me at the Wynn Las Vegas.[3] Additionally, Piece was the music director of the Calgary Stampede Evening Grandstand Show and of the 2009 Gemini Awards
television show in Canada. He is the father of two daughters.

Pierce has worked with a variety of performers, including Michael Bublé, Loreena McKennitt, Petula Clark, Carrie Underwood, Paul Brandt, Ian Tyson, Jann Arden, Jorane, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado and k.d. lang. Pierce was commissioned to compose a symphonic work for Queen Elizabeth II.[4]

Career

Dave Pierce was born in Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada.[1] An alumnus of Boston's Berklee College of Music (1992), Pierce returned to his native Canada and began working with entertainment producers, developing many successful projects including Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular in New York City featuring The Rockettes, Grey Cup halftime shows for the Canadian Football League, television awards shows including Canada's Gemini Awards and The ACMA's in USA.

His credits range from musical theater, sporting and cultural events to commercial recordings and live mega spectacles. As an orchestrator, Pierce has adapted scores for hit Broadway National Tours including Chicago, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber Concert Tour, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, Dr. Dolittle, and Annie Get Your Gun.

The stars of

Macy's Parade, Arista Records, Tropicana Resorts, Clear Channel Europe, Disney, Bayer, Fashion Television, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Troika Entertainment, the Government of Canada, BMG and Universal Music
. He regularly works in major markets such as New York, L.A., Nashville, Chicago, Toronto and Vancouver.

Vancouver 2010

Pierce was the director of music for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His compositions were used as the underpinning of the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the daily medals presentations. Pierce produced the CD Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Opening Ceremony Commemorative Album, which sold Gold, and the Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Closing Ceremony Commemorative Album. Each CD features artists from the ceremonies including Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado, K-os, Michael Bublé, Sarah McLachlan, Nickelback, Alanis Morissette, Donald Sutherland, Garou, and opera singers Measha Brueggergosman and Ben Heppner. Beyond one pre-recorded segment, featuring a performance of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, conducted in studio by ballet maestro Earl Stafford, Pierce conducted all of the recording orchestras as well as the opening ceremony live on-stage orchestra (known as the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Orchestra, per the album). Pierce utilized a unique approach to producing the recordings for the Games which employed over 300 musicians and provided a cross-genre score that included Canadian indigenous musicians, symphonic instrumentalists and players from the worlds of jazz, punk, rock, R&B, folk and country.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Dave Pierce at the Internet Broadway Database
  2. ^ Jessica Patterson, for Metro Canada. "Olympics composer Dave Pierce wins one more Gold for Canada". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2010-11-08.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Emmy-Winning Olympic Composer Dave Pierce to dance with Sinatra in Vegas". We Do It All Vegas!. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  4. ^ "Dave's Bio". davepiercemusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Dave Pierce Interview". collections.nmc.ca. Retrieved 2022-08-19.

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