Kris Maddigan

Kris Maddigan

Kristofer Maddigan is a percussionist, drummer, BAFTA award winning and Juno nominated composer based in Toronto, Canada. Principal percussionist of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra (of which he has been a member since 2010), Kris also performs regularly with a wide range of groups including The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The National Arts Center Orchestra, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, The Esprit Orchestra, The Toronto Concert Orchestra, and the Devah Quartet. Kris also works with numerous jazz, theatre and new music groups around the city.

As a composer, Kris contributed music for the ‘My Virtual Dream’ project which premiered at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2013, and composed the soundtrack for the award winning video game ‘Cuphead‘, released to widespread acclaim in 2017, as well as the follow up, ‘The Delicious Last Course‘, released in June, 2022. As an arranger Kris has worked with the National Ballet of Canada, and on Crow’s Theatre’s 2021 presentation of ‘The Master and Margarita’. Most recently, Toronto’s ‘Hannaford Street Silver Band’ premiered his composition ‘Cityscape Reflections’ in May, 2023.

In the spring of 2018 Kris was honoured to receive the Toronto Musicians’ Association ‘Musician of the Year’ award.

https://krismaddigan.com

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