Doug Wilde

Doug is the principle composer, music director, and keyboard player for the Canadian world/ jazz /fusion group Manteca.   Doug has also released a number of projects under his own name, both “Chamber/ Scenic Jazz” and “Ambient Music”. His latest project “ The Sixth Dimension” is a unique reworking of  traditional jazz  harmony, using six-note scales.
As a composer and founding partner of the music production company "Harris Cole Wilde " (later known as "Jungle Music") Doug spent many years writing and learning on the front lines – creating all kinds of music, working with great musicians and recording everyday. As a screen composer, Doug has created well over 1500 scores for radio and television commercials – including numerous scores for TV variety, documentary programming and radio drama. Doug also has extensive experience as a music director for live television. He has composed, arranged, and led bands for the Gemini and Genie awards, weekly national variety shows, Canada Day from Parliament Hill and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

 Doug was born into a musical family and raised in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.   
Although initially self taught, Doug was able to talk his way into a few music schools. At Humber College he studied arranging with the legendary Ron Collier, and was awarded the Duke Ellington Memorial Scholarship. He later studied film scoring and advanced arranging with Rayburn Wright and Manny Albam at the Eastman School of Music.  Doug eventually earned a master’s degree in composition and a PhD (specializing in post-tonal techniques in classical and jazz composition)  from York University.

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