"With Cozens deft touch, it came off as magical"
- National Post
Charles T. Cozens is an award winning, internationally known arranger, orchestrator, composer, conductor, music director and producer. Labeled by the Canadian Press as "one of Canadas premiere arrangers", Mr. Cozens won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 1986 National Workshop Arranger's Competition. Since then, major orchestras in North America and Europe have performed his orchestral arrangements consistently to critical acclaim, and he has been continuously recognized, with numerous awards and nominations. Mr. Cozens special career highlights have included a Command Performance for HRH Queen Elizabeth as an Arranger and Composer (London, 1984), and as Conductor for The Duke Of Edinburgh Awards, HRH Prince Philip (Toronto, 2004: Mozart and Bach program with members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra).As a conductor, Mr. Cozens has guest conducted many of Canada's leading symphony orchestras coast to coast including Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Kitchener-Waterloo, Hamilton, Mississauga, members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia in both pops and concert music idioms. He has also conducted and recorded in Moscow with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Cinema Orchestra and members of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.