The VFO.
Movie Music Magic.
Welcome to the VFO.
About Us
Only a short flight from LA, the Vancouver Film Orchestra is an 80-player symphonic ensemble dedicated to recording motion picture scores with the utmost is technical, artistic, and musical precision.
We have recorded more than 50 scores for clients including Universal, Disney, Lionsgate, Netflix, Amazon, PBS, and Discovery, featuring Oscar-winning composers such as Mychael Danna (Stone of Destiny, featuring the pipers who performed on James Cameron’s Titanic) and Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille, the French Café song – “Le Festin”, performed by the Rat Band and Camille Dalmais) and stars such as Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman (Once Upon a Mattress for Disney Home Video), and let’s not forget the Pirates from Disney’s Peter Pan & Wendy.
We also have non-orchestral ensembles – choirs, jazz big band, pop/rock groups, and ethnic combinations. We have recorded for artists such as Michael Bublé (a Grammy for Crazy Love), Bryan Adams (a Juno nomination for 11), Marinas Trench (double and triple platinum albums), David Foster, as well as live concerts for The Legend of Zelda Tour.
The orchestra members are hand-picked from the Grammy Award-winning Vancouver Symphony, The Vancouver Opera Orchestra and highly skilled freelancers, and the sessions are recorded by the most specialized and dedicated technical team in Canada.
We record primarily at 3 different facilities in Vancouver: The Warehouse features a Neve Air A6630, originally from Air Studios in London, Armoury Studios features an SSL 4072 G+, and CBC Studio One, the largest and quietest recording room in Canada, purpose-built for the CBC Radio Orchestra.
Vancouver, British Columbia, has a very active film and television production infrastructure. We have the BC Labour Tax Credits in place for subsidizing crew, labour and musicians. Combined with a low USD to CAD exchange, the rates for recording and music services are very competitive.
We handle every step of the scoring process from budgets, contracts, orchestration, music preparation, studio bookings and recording sessions, music mixing and editing, up to the final delivery to the dub stage, providing a hassle-free music experience.
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Key Personnel
Roger Monk
Roger Monk is a recording engineer, best known for his established yet unique approach using methods and techniques that he first learned in the analogue days.
He has recorded virtually all types of music for dozens of motion pictures, television shows, documentaries and theatre projects. Some highlights include scores for Platoon, The Dirty Dozen, The Haunting in Connecticut, and I’ll Take Manhattan.
For the music industry: 102 National Anthems for the 2010 Olympic Games with the Vancouver Symphony, Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Olivia Newton-John, Metallica, The Tragically Hip, Marianas Trench.
He received a Grammy™ for his work with Michael Bublé…
Vince Renaud
Vince Renaud a freelance recording engineer with over 40 years of experience in music recording and mixing, audio post production, equipment installation and maintenance, remote recordings, and sound reinforcement.
Notable projects include Dialogue Supervisor/Re-Recording mixer for Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 feature film Chappie, and 2013 feature film Elysium, mixing the scores for Peter Jackson’s 2009 sci-fi blockbuster District 9, Gold Circle’s horror hit The Haunting In Connnecticut, and also all 102 national anthems for the 2010 Winter Olympics, recorded with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, as well as audio editing, mixing and supervision on hundreds of hours of television…
Studios
We record at primarily 3 different facilities in Vancouver: The Warehouse features a Neve Air A6630, originally from Air Studios in London, Armoury Studios features an SSL 4072 G+, and CBC Studio One is the largest recording room in Canada, purpose-built for the CBC Radio Orchestra. Vancouver, British Columbia, has a very active film and television production infrastructure. Smaller scale and remote recording options are also possible, depending on the scope of the project. Contact us for more details.
