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| Born | July 10, 1968 Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger |
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Dave Pierce (born July 10, 1968)[1] is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger. He was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction in 2010.[2] He was also the arranger for Twyla Tharp's Frank Sinatra musical, Come Fly Away, which opened in March of 2010 in New York at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway and later that year as Sinatra Dance With Me at the Wynn Las Vegas.[3] Additionally, Peirce was the music director of the Calgary Stampede Evening Grandstand Show and of the 2009 Gemini Awards television show in Canada. He is the father of two daughters.
Pierce has worked with a variety of performers, including Michael Bublé, Loreena McKennitt, Petula Clark, Carrie Underwood, Paul Brandt, Ian Tyson, Jann Arden, Jorane, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado and k.d. lang. He was also commissioned to compose a symphonic work for Queen Elizabeth II.[4]
- ^ Dave Pierce at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ Jessica Patterson, for Metro Canada. "Olympics composer Dave Pierce wins one more Gold for Canada". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 2010-11-08.[dead link]
- ^ "Emmy-Winning Olympic Composer Dave Pierce to dance with Sinatra in Vegas". We Do It All Vegas!. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ "Dave's Bio". davepiercemusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2019.