Leo Marchildon

Leo Marchildon is a PEI-based organist, music director, film/theatre music composer and producer. Marchildon has been the organist and music director for St. Dunstan’s Basilica since 2010, settling in PEI following an extensive career in music editing for television, performing in international touring productions of Broadway shows, and composing for film and stage, including The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery (2008).

Marchildon premiered a symphonic tribute to Canada entitled “Canada, Our Dear Home” in 2014, a 20-minute piece for voice and orchestra celebrating the various cultural influences and indigenous Island fiddle music which helped to shape and support PEI’s role as the Birthplace of Confederation. In addition, he composed underscore music for the Watermark Theatre productions of The Glass Menagerie, Blithe Spirit, and Dial M for Murder.

Marchildon has performed as a guest soloist with the PEI Symphony and composed “Song of a Tree” for the Symphony as part of the Cantata for Canada 150 in 2017, based on a poem by Madison Lockman.

In addition, Marchildon creates musical arrangements for choirs and soloists, and also conducted for the Strathgartney Chamber Orchestra, which later became PEI Pops!.