Bram gielen is a composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in toronto.

He has performed and recorded with Jeremy Dutcher (for whom he also acted as musical director and orchestrator), Beverly Glenn-Copeland, The Mountain Goats, Owen Pallett, Joseph Shabason, Allie X, and Weaves, to name only a very few.

As a recording artist in his own right, his body of work consists of the albums Greetings (2018), Affirmations (2019), Requests (2020), and Eight Places (For Four Instruments) (2022).

As a composer for film, his work includes scores for award-winning films including Someone Lives Here (2023), May Flowers (2023), Lessons in Temperament (2021), and Birdlime (2017), and his collaborations with visual artists have premiered at the Saatchi Gallery London (Edward Burtynsky: Rare Earth) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (Joële Walinga: Cave Small Cave Big).

He is also a Dora-nominated composer for theatre, and he has made music for a wide array of advertisements.

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