Aaron Tsang

Biography

Aaron Tsang is a Canadian composer and producer who has provided original music, sound design and post-production audio to over a hundred titles and releases across videogames, commercials, television shows, films, and performance arts productions. In his most recent work, Bravo Niagara!’s full-length multimedia ballet “Kimiko’s Pearl”, he served as sound designer and recording engineer working closely with Meyer Sound Labs, whose live immersive audio setups are employed around the world with clients such as Cirque Du Soleil, Ed Sheeran and Metallica. Using Meyer's SpacemapGO system, a 60-channel immersive audio experience of composer Kevin Lau’s sweeping and powerful ballet score was mounted and is the first live ballet performance of its kind to feature a cinematic immersive audio soundtrack. As a recording, mixing and mastering engineer, his work for Christos Hatzis’ and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s “Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation” won a Juno award for “Classical Album of the Year” in 2017. Using a cinematic soundtrack approach to producing classical recordings, Aaron has become increasingly sought after as the producer and recording engineer of new music. His other recent collaborations include recording and mixing Matthias McIntire and Rachel Fenlon’s song cycle “Sing Nature”; producing, recording, and mixing Sarah Slean and Christos Hatzis’ orchestral song “Nothing But The Light”.

In 2021 the University of Toronto commissioned Aaron to compose an orchestral overture for the inauguration of their new campaign “Defy Gravity”. The premiere was performed by the UTSO and conducted by Lorenzo Guggenheim, marking an exact decade since Aaron was first commissioned by the University of Toronto for the previous campaign “Boundless” in 2011, where he was commissioned to compose a brass fanfare anthem for a 30-piece brass band which was performed at every faculty and campus during its launch. During the covid pandemic, Aaron was again commissioned by the University of Toronto to compose an orchestral score for six consecutive virtual convocations held in absentia and streamed online between 2020-2022. This music is still played yearly during the now in-person convocations at the University of Toronto.

In video games, Aaron has composed music for over 30 titles since 2010, beginning with CAPCOM Beeline’s “Smurfs’ Village”. Some other highlights include mobile games for franchises such as Shrek (DreamWorks Pictures), Ghostbusters (Sony Pictures), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Konami), and Kim Kardashian’s “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”, a game with over 145 million global downloads. In 2017, Aaron was the composer for “Shuyan Saga”, a graphic novel style 3D action video game released on Steam, mobile platforms, and now PS5, which stars Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Burden of Truth) as the titular heroine Shuyan. The game features a full orchestral soundtrack, and was nominated by the Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 for “Best Original Interactive Production for Digital Media”. 

Aaron teaches at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Music Industry & Technology (MIT) program in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media as well as at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in the Music Technology Digital Media (MTDM) and Composition departments.