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Owen Pallett

Owen Pallett

Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist, who performs solo as Owen Pallett or, before 2010, under the name Final Fantasy. As Final Fantasy, he won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds. From the age of 3, Pallett studied classical violin, and composed his first piece at age 13. A notable early composition includes some of the music for the game Traffic Department 2192; he moved on to scoring films, to composing two operas while in university. Apart from the indie music scene, he has had commissions from the Barbican, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada, Bang on a Can, Ecstatic Music Festival, the Vancouver CBC Orchestra, and Fine Young Classicals. On his Final Fantasy releases, Pallett has collaborated with Leon Taheny, who is credited as drummer and engineer. Following the release of Heartland, Pallett has toured with guitarist/percussionist Thomas Gill and more recently with his former collaborators in Les Mouches, Rob Gordon and Matt Smith. Pallett has been noted for his live performances, wherein he plays the violin into a loop pedal. Pallett uses Max/MSP and SooperLooper to do multi-phonic looping, which sends his violin signal to amplifiers across the stage. In January 2014, Pallett and William Butler were nominated for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their work on Her.

Personal information

Birthday

1979-09-07

Birth Place

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Movies and TV shows :

Arcade Fire: Madison Square Garden New York, NY 2010-08-05

Arcade Fire: Madison Square Garden New York, NY 2010-08-05

2010

6.0

Movie
Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project

Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project

2014

7.0

Movie
Lennon or McCartney

Lennon or McCartney

2014

5.2

Movie
Music Is My Boyfriend

Music Is My Boyfriend

2022

0.0

Movie
poster

Saturday Night Live

1975

6.9

TV
The Arcade Fire: Olympia Paris

The Arcade Fire: Olympia Paris

2007

0.0

Movie