John Frederick "Jack" Lenz is a Canadian composer. He has written, performed, and produced music for film, television, and theatre, along with working on non-soundtrack album ventures.Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Film and TV Composers, Jack Lenz He is also the founder of Live Unity Enterprises, an organization devoted to the production of music for the Baháʼí community.
Lenz contributed additional music for the John Debney score for Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. Among his current projects is working on a movie about the persecution of Baháʼís in Iran, particularly the story of Mona Mahmudnizhad who suffered under the persecution in Iran,Mona's Message under the title of Mona's Dream.Note Mona Mahmudnizhad's story is also the subject of other art works: music artist Doug Cameron's popular song "Mona with the Children" which made the top of the pop charts (#14 for the week of October 19, 1985) according to "Pop Annual 1955-1999: Sixth Edition" and as a play A Dress for Mona . He was music director of 90 Minutes Live, with Peter Gzowski on CBC Television from 1976 to 1978.
He resides in Toronto, Ontario.
Background Lenz was born in Eston, Saskatchewan. His mother was also raised in Saskatchewan, and his father came to Canada from Hungary during the Depression. While still in his youth, Lenz took piano lessons from Garth Beckett and later studied composition at the University of Saskatchewan.Millennnium Arts Society – Jack Lenz in conversation with Joseph Lerner Lenz became a professional musician when he played keyboards and flute for the soft-rock bands Seals and Crofts and Loggins and Messina touring around the world, performing before large audiences, and recording.Baháʼí Community of Canada, Canadian Baháʼís > In the News > Jack Lenz Lenz' involvement in children's issues stems partly from having seven children of his own, as well as being in an arena which avoids "the conflict between what I believe about music and its sacred nature and dealing with what a lot of programming deals with, which sometimes could be the worst aspects of human nature." Lenz joined the Baháʼí Faith in 1969.
Discography
Film YearTitleNotes1985Final OfferTV movie1994To Catch a Yeti1995Pocahontas: The Legend2004The Passion of the Christ2008The Good WitchTV movie2009The Good Witch's Garden2010The Good Witch's Gift2011The Good Witch's Family2012The Good Witch's Charm2013The Good Witch's Destiny2014The Good Witch's WonderLeft Behind
Television YearTitleNotes1994-1999Due South63 episodes1995-1998Goosebumps34 episodes1999-2004Nanalan'Composer and executive producer2001-2004Doc6 episodes2003-2005Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye53 episodes2003-2009The Saddle Club46 episodes2004-2008Atomic Betty79 episodes2007-2012Little Mosque on the Prairie88 episodes2008-2009Big & Small21 episodes2015-2021Good Witch73 episodes2018-2019Battle DogsProducer and composer, ten episodes
Albums YearAlbum/SongRoleNotes1977FinaleFlutist1983OK Blue JaysSongwriter2004Go Where Love GoesPerformed by Andrea Bocelli on Andrea
Awards
Gemini Awards YearCategoryNominated workResult1995Best Original Music Score for a SeriesDue South, episode "Free Willie"1996Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic SeriesDue South, episode "The Gift of the Wheelman"2004Best Pre-School Program or SeriesNanalan'
References
External links
Millennnium Arts Society - Jack Lenz in conversation with Joseph Lerner Mona's Dream