Editing Donald Quan

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At 50 years of age, Donald Quan has been composing professionally most of his life. He has been nominated for several Gemini Awards and has been the recipient of 3 SOCAN awards for film music as well as multiple Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards.

Donald Quan [http://sotsumo.com/Sotsumo/About_US.html] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Quan]
is a renowned multi-instrumentalist and has toured all over the world with Loreena McKennitt [http://www.quinlanroad.com/] playing tabla, viola and keyboards. He was also a member of Lighthouse [http://www.lighthouserockson.com/1/post/2010/01/donald-quan-rocks.html] for many years and was the audio producer of Lighthouse's "40 years of Sunny Days" DVD/CD. He has toured in Asia with Erhu virtuoso George Gao [http://www.georgegao.com/] and world music flutist Ron Korb [http://www.ronkorb.com/] as well as with contemporary Kirtan artist Jim Gelcer. [http://jimgelcerkirtan.com/]

Donald is best known for his memorable theme for the syndicated series "Relic Hunter".[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207919/] In fact, he was the only creative that was with the series for all 66 episodes. 

He has scored hundreds of hours of dramatic series, documentary, short and feature films and CBC radio-dramas. 

Amongst his other dramatic series credits are 44 episodes of "Mutant X" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283203/] and 22 episodes of "Starhunter" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250750/]  (Alliance/Atlantis) and others too numerous to mention.

His world music-based theme is currently heard every morning on CBC radio's "Metro Morning".[http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/]

Donald has also scored several works for dance and theatre including several works for choreographer Kaha:wii Dance Theatre, [http://kahawidance.org/] Young People's Theatre, http://www.youngpeoplestheatre.ca/ and Red Sky Performance. [http://www.redskyperformance.com/] 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=botfEEoUink]

As a recording artist, Donald Quan has released 3 albums on his independent label Edam Squid [http://www.discogs.com/Donald-Quan-Invocata/release/1603637] and has recently released over a dozen albums as a label artist for Somerset/Avalon Entertainment.

Donald is one of the most prolific SOCAN-earning film composers in Canada.

Currently Donald runs and performs at the renowned Musideum,[http://musideum.com/] a museum of unusual musical instruments and nightly venue to some of the best musical performances in Toronto.