CV - 2016
WALTER RATHIE music composer
(905) 582-5220 email: [email protected] website: http://www.walterrathie.com
COMPANY Walter Rathie Productions Inc. President / Owner Oakville, Ontario
FORMAL EDUCATION
BA, Concordia University, Montreal, 1978
INFORMAL EDUCATION
Private tutors, various symposia
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
SCREEN COMPOSER’S GUILD OF CANADA / SOCAN / SODRAC /
PROFILE
Walter is a composer, sound designer, music producer, songwriter and arranger. Based in the Greater Toronto area, he has worked on a wide array of projects including documentary television, reality tv, independent film, docu-drama, corporate video, interactive media and live events.
Composing in a broad spectrum of styles and motifs, Walter has drawn from his diverse and eclectic musical background to create and produce compelling music scores and themes for many successful television series, programs and independent films, and for such broadcasters as CTV, CBC, Global TV, Discovery Canada/US / Int’l. / Discovery HD, Investigation Discovery US & Canada, History Channel Canada & UK, W Network, PBS Network USA, Animal Planet US & Canada, OWN, National Geographic Channel US & Canada, CityTV, TVOntario, TFO, Canal D, Channel 5 UK and La Cinquieme France.
Television & film credits:
• Sin City ER Discovery Life US US (6x60 series)
• Did He Do It? Discovery ID US (6x60 series)
• See No Evil Discovery ID (6x60 series) Series theme and pre-title sequence music
• Last Seen Alive (co-composer) Discovery ID (6x60 series)
• Handsome Devils Discovery ID / Shaw Media 10x60 series
• Murder in Paradise (Season 2) Discovery ID /Canal D /OWN (10x60 series)
• Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case (Season 3) Discovery ID /Canal D 10x60 series
• Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case (Season 2) Discovery ID /Canal D 10x60 series
• Murder in Paradise Discovery Channel / Canal D /Slice TV 6x60 series
• Karma’s a B*tch Discovery ID /Canal D 6x30 series
• Surviving Evil (co-composer) Discovery ID /Canal D 10x60 series
• Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case (Season 1) Discovery ID /Canal D 10x60 series
• Cold Blood (Season 5) Global TV Network Canada / History Canada / MysteryTV US. 10x60 series - Season 5 of the hit true crime series
• Casino Confidential (10x30 series) Shaw Media for TVtropolis (Canada)
• The Making of Copper (60 min. documentary film) BBC America - a behind the scenes look at the new Cineflix Studios hit dramatic tv series “Copper”
• Python Hunters (9x60 series) Nat’l. Geographic Wild Channel
• Canadian Pickers (13x60 series) History Channel / Historia Canada
• Cold Blood (Season 4) Global TV Network Canada / History Canada / MysteryTV US. 10x60 series - Season 4 of the hit true crime series
• Nothing Personal - (Season 2) Discovery ID & Int'l / History Canada / Canal D - 6x60 series - back for a new season - hosted by Steve Schirripa of the Sopranos. More hits / more mayhem
• Dual Suspects - Season 2 10x60 series Global TV Network Canada / History Canada / MysteryTV US. Season 2 of the hit mystery true crime docu-drama series. One victim - two suspects
• Cold Blood (Season 3) - Discovery International / History Canada / Five UK / Canal D (Canada) 13x30 series -3rd season of the hit Mystery / true crime docu-drama series
• Nothing Personal - Discovery ID & Int'l / History Canada / Canal D - 6x60 series - hosted by Steve Schirripa of the Sopranos. Docu-drama series set inside the terrifying world of the professional hitman
• Dual Suspects - Global TV Canada / History Canada / MysteryTV US - 13x60 series. A brutal murder has been committed, two prime suspects emerge. Dual Suspects combines the thrill of a mystery with the visceral experience of true crime drama
• Cold Blood (Season 2) - Discovery International / History Canada / Five UK / Canal D (Canada) 13x30 series -2nd season of the hit Mystery / true crime docu-drama series
• William Shatner's Weird or What? - History Canada, Discovery US & Int'l 30x60 series - (3 seasons) hosted by William Shatner. Exploring mysteries, strange phenomena and all that’s weird in the world while searching for logical, scientific explanations
• Nazi Hunters - History Channel Int’l / Canwest Media / National Geographic Channel US - 8x60 - drama doc series - Featuring eight spellbinding missions, Nazi Hunters tells how a select band of secret agents and avengers hunted down some of the most evil men in history… and finally brought them to justice • Winner of 2 Gemini Awards - - Best History Documentary Program - Best Direction in a Documentary Series
• My Last 24 - CITY TV 1x30 - series pilot - documenting the lives of extraordinary people, as they prepare for life-changing events and risk everything to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to follow their dreams
• Human Prey/Eaten Alive - Animal Planet US/Canada & Int’l / Discovery Canada /Canal D - 6x60 docu-drama series - Recounting bone-chilling attacks by some of world’s deadliest predators... and those who lived to tell the tale
• Kim’s Rude Awakenings - W Network (Seasons 1 & 2) 26x30 reality series featuring British tv star and domestic diva Kim Woodburn
• The First Day - independent film - France Morency - director a poignant short film about life, love and loss
• United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Montréal original music score for opening gala DVD presentation “A World of Solutions”
• Global Warming - The Signs & Science - PBS Network USA 1x60 documentary film that explores what is arguably the most significant environmental phenomenon of the last 10,000 years - hosted by Alanis Morissette
• Colin & Justin’s Home Heist - HGTV 13x30 reality series - additional music
• Great Adventure People - CTV Network 6x60 adventure reality series
• L’Enfance Pas a Pas - Guilgamesh Productions, France / TFO 13x30 educational series on the psychology of early childhood
• Danger in the Galapagos - TVOntario / National Geographic 1 hour documentary film
• Performance - Discovery Canada / Int’l / Canal D / Tech TV San Francisco / Central China Television 13x60 series on the science & technology of modern sports
• 5th Dimension - TVOntario / National Geographic / La Cinquieme, France 13x30 series about the secret life of underwater life forms around the globe
• 24 Hours in the Life of a City - CTV 13x60 series - behind-the-scenes dawn till dusk look at some of the most exciting life-style cities in the world
STUDIO
A hybrid composition / recording / music production studio, employing world-class digital audio production technologies :
2 Apple Mac Pros OSX 10.10 Yosemite - 14 terabytes of hard disk storage – 4 x LCD displays • Steinberg Cubase Pro 8 - advanced music recording and production system with massive array of high-end audio DSP plugins and virtual instruments, integrating MIDI sequencing and 24-bit high-resolution digital audio; frame-accurate internal sync to digital video • Avid/Digidesign Protools 11 - industry standard music and audio production platform • Fatar Studiologic SL880 Pro 88-note wood-weighted keyboard MIDI controller • UAD Apollo Quad DSP / audio interface• Dynaudio BM15A studio reference monitors and amplifiers • several high-end studio microphones • Lexicon, Yamaha and Alesis external FX processors• Soundcraft mixer • Korg & Roland digital romplers, assorted synths & rackmount sound modules • extensive high-end sample instrument & sound FX library • 1960s vintage Hammond M100 organ & Leslie speaker • projects mastered & archived to HD / FTP archive / CD-R / DVD-R. Projects delivered via stereo mix, mix stems or Protools session format) Project media managed worldwide via secure hi-speed ftp site and/or hard copy.