about the composer

Hi, I’m Griffin.

Griffin Hook (He/Him/His) is a Canadian composer based in Thornhill, Ontario. Griffin’s work is aimed toward both screen and stage, primarily focusing on the world of Wind Ensemble music. His band works have been recorded, workshopped, & premiered by the Westmount Symphonic Winds, Newmarket High School, the University of Toronto Wind Symphony, University of Toronto Wind Ensemble, and the National Youth Band of Canada. Known for writing music that is cinematic and imaginative, Griffin’s unique compositional style blends traditional concert band form with the creative energy of film scores to create pieces that are exciting & enjoyable for musicians, conductors, ensembles, and audiences alike.

As a graduate of the Comprehensive Studies program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and currently part of the Music Scoring for Screen & Stage program at Sheridan College, Griffin has had the opportunity to write music in collaboration with students from Sheridan Animation to create original scores for their thesis films and has partnered with students in UofT Computer Science, OCAD Digital Futures, & Centennial Game-Art to create soundtracks for independent video game projects.

​Projects Griffin has worked on have placed in the top five out of over 100 games at the 2023 LevelUp Student Showcase and have been featured as part of the 2024 Oakville Film Festival.

Griffin also focuses in audio recording/editing, digital audio synthesis, and conducting; being a two-time delegate of the York/OBA Wind Conductors’ Symposium and mixing/mastering reference recordings performed by the UofT Wind Symphony & UofT Wind Ensemble for his own compositions and for American composer Nicole Piunno in January of 2024.

Griffin is the winner of the Canadian Band Association's 2024 Howard Cable Memorial Prize in Composition, a winner of the 2024 CFMTA Student Composer Competition, and is a finalist in the 2024 WASBE International Composition Contest. Griffin is also a three-time winner of the ORMTA Music Writing Competition and three-time Eleanor Marzetti Scholarship recipient, as well as a two-time winner of the Kiwanis Original Composition Contest, among other awards and honourable mentions in competitions at city & provincial levels for over a decade.

All works are self-published under GriffinHMusic.

awards

Cape Breton Skies

  • ​Winner, Canada

  • 2024 Howard Cable Memorial Prize in Composition (Canadian Band Association)

​​Rocky Mountain Portraits

  • ​​​First-Place Winner, Canada

  • ​CFMTA Student Composer Competition 2024| Class D: Open

  • ​​​First-Place Winner, Ontario (Eleanor Marzetti Scholarship)

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2024| Class D: Open

Thrill of Adventure

  • Finalist, Worldwide

  • WASBE International Composition Contest 2024 | Category 3: BREAKTHROUGH 

​​A Hero's Quest

  • First-Place Winner, Toronto

  • Kiwanis Festival Original Composition 2024 | Ensemble: Age 19-28 ​

​The Witch Hunt

  • ​​First-Place Winner, Ontario (Eleanor Marzetti Scholarship)

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2023| Class D: Open

​Pictures of Paricutin

  • First-Place Winner, Toronto

  • Kiwanis Festival Original Composition 2023 | Ensemble: Age 19-28 

A Trumpeter's Lament

  • ​​First-Place Winner, Ontario (Eleanor Marzetti Scholarship)

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2020 | Class D: Open

Genesis

  • Second-Place Winner, Ontario

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2019 | Class D: Open

Panic Attack!

  • Second-Place Winner, Ontario

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2019 | Class C: 19 & Under

Brain Teaser

  • Second-Place Winner, Ontario

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2018 | Class B1: 15 & Under, Instrumental

festivals

Ultima 5000 (short film by Sofia Mazzotta) 

  • Featured as part of the Oakville Film Festival (2024)

Meow Tunes (in collaboration with UofT Computer Science & Centennial Game Art)

  • ​Honourable Mention for Technical Innovation at LevelUp Student Showcase (2023)

ChromaCity (in collaboration with UofT Computer Science & OCAD Digital Futures)

  • Participant in the LevelUp Student Showcase (2023)

nominations

Cape Breton Skies

  • Honorary Mention, Worldwide (Top 6)

  • WASBE International Composition Contest 2024 | Category 1: Grade 3-3.5

Overtonal (Solo Piano Version)

  • Honorary Mention, Ontario (Top 6)

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2020 | Class C: 19 & Under

Night on the Town

  • ​Honorary Mention, Ontario (Top 5)

  • ORMTA Music Writing Competition 2016 | Class B1: 15 & Under, Instrumental

areas of study

Music Technology

  • Composition for Film

  • Composition for Video Games

  • Multi-Media Composition

  • Digital Audio, Music Recording, Mixing & Mastering

Composition

  • Wind Ensemble Composition

  • ​Orchestration

  • Composition for Percussion

Conducting

  • Wind Ensemble

  • Orchestra

ensemble experience

Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra (2020-2021, 2024-2025)

Hart House Symphonic Band (2024-2025)

  • Guest Musician (Spring 2024 Concert, Winter 2024 Concert, Spring 2025 Concert)

University of Toronto Wind Symphony (2020-2024) 

  • Ensemble Manager (2022-2024)​

Claude Watson Pit Orchestra (2023)

  • Guest Musician (Into the Woods)

Toronto Youth Symphonic Winds (2019-2020)

Westmount Symphonic Winds (2016-2020)

  • ​Section Leader (2018-2020)

Westmount ARTS Band (2016-2020) 

  • ​Section ​Leader (2018-2020)

Westmount Jazz Band (2016-2020)

​Section Leader(2018-2020)

demo reels

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