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Artist
Patrick Godfrey
12+ albums
pianoinstrumentalClassicalnew agenew age piano
about
Patrick Godfrey was born in Toronto in 1948 and began playing piano at age 10. Initially self-taught, from the beginning he was interested in many styles of music, and his early influences included Fats Domino, Henry Mancini, Leonard Bernstein and JS Bach. He started playing at church dances when he was 12, and went on to play and sing in a number of Toronto rock bands, including the Omegas, The Diplomats, and RCA recording artists Simon Caine. By 1970 he had become a first call session pianist and worked with many well known Canadian musicians including Bruce Cockburn, Murray McLaughlan, Raffi, Marc Jordan, Shirley Eikhard, Ben Mink, Daniel Lanois, Ken Whitely, David Essig, Fraser and Debolt and Mendelson Joe. During the early 1970's, Patrick studied piano and composition at the RCM with Canadian composer and educator Dr. Samuel Dolin, mentor to many well known Canadian musicians. His work with singer Len Udow took him to Winnipeg one Summer, where he met animator Richard Condie and wrote the music for Richard's first animation, "Oh Sure". So began a friendship which continues today; Patrick has scored all of Richard's animations including the Academy Award nominated classics The Big Snit and La Salla. More recently Richard and Patrick completed an internet project for the NFB entitle Etudes and Impromptus and they are currently planning a new project for the WWW. Patrick has worked on numerous other animations, including the Academy award nominated short George a
