Kristofer Maddigan

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Kristofer Maddigan

Biography

Kristofer Maddigan is a Canadian percussionist, drummer, BAFTA award winning and Juno nominated composer.

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, the Thunder-Bay Symphony, a Fantastica Batteria, 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.

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


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