Canadian film and television composer and songwriter
Maribeth Solomon (born June 23, 1950) is a Canadian film and television composer and songwriter.[1] She has been nominated for the Genie Award , the Emmy Award , the Gemini Award and the International Film Music Critics Association Award for her work.
Most of her composing work was done as a duo with her husband, Micky Erbe .[1] They were always nominated together as composers of film or television scores, although Solomon also received two nominations on her own as a songwriter. Solomon and Erbe were partners in their own firm, Mickymar Productions, until Erbe's death in 2021.
Born in Toronto , Ontario , Solomon is the daughter of former Toronto Symphony Orchestra violinist Stanley Solomon, and the sister of jazz and pop musician Lenny Solomon . Solomon and Erbe both contributed to the debut album by Lenny Solomon's 1970s band Myles and Lenny ,[2] and Solomon's song "Falling into Rhyme" was recorded by Anne Murray on her 1972 album Annie .
Solomon's composing credits include the films Harry Tracy, Desperado , Improper Channels , Hubble , Space Station 3D , Ticket to Heaven , Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story , Blackjack , Threshold , Deadly Love , Destiny in Space , Picture Perfect , Utilities , Mission to Mir , The Dream is Alive and Blue Planet , and the television series It's Our Stuff , Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy , Side Effects , Earth: Final Conflict , Street Legal , E.N.G. , Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Schitt's Creek .
Solomon has also composed for video games, most notably for independent outfit Failbetter Games' Sunless Sea [3] and Sunless Skies .[4]
Awards and nominations
Genies
3rd Genie Awards , 1982 - Best Original Score , Ticket to Heaven [5]
4th Genie Awards , 1983 - Best Original Score, Threshold [6]
9th Genie Awards , 1988 - Best Original Song , "Rise and Shine" (The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland )
10th Genie Awards , 1989 - Best Original Score, Milk and Honey [7]
11th Genie Awards , 1990 - Best Original Song, "The Best We Both Can Be" and "Elephant March" (Babar: The Movie )
Geminis
Emmys
IMFCA
References
^ a b Marjorie Hale and Betty Nygaard King, "Maribeth Solomon" . The Canadian Encyclopedia , May 7, 2007.
^ "Myles and Lenny" [usurped] . canoe.ca Pop Music Encyclopedia.
^ "Sunless Sea Official Soundtrack · Failbetter Games" . www.failbettergames.com . Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
^ "Sunless Skies OST, by Maribeth Solomon Brent Barkman for Mickymar Productions" . Failbetter Games . Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
^ Jay Scott , "Les Plouffe, Ticket to Heaven lead the pack: Academy lists Genie nominees". The Globe and Mail , February 4, 1982.
^ Jay Scott , "Top Genie prospects for Jack Miner move". The Globe and Mail , February 10, 1983.
^ Jay Scott , "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail , February 14, 1989.
^ "All the 1988 Gemini winners". Vancouver Sun , December 1, 1988.
^ "Geminis awarded last night". Montreal Gazette , December 5, 1989.
^ "Beleaguered McKenna honored with two Geminis". Montreal Gazette , March 7, 1993.
^ "Gemini winners". Toronto Star , October 5, 1998.
^ "Here are the nominees for the 15th annual Gemini Awards". Canadian Press , September 19, 2000.
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