Jack Lenz

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title: "Jack Lenz" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "living-people", "canadian-people-of-hungarian-descent", "canadian-baháʼís", "canadian-film-score-composers", "canadian-male-film-score-composers", "canadian-television-composers", "canadian-male-television-composers", "converts-to-the-baháʼí-faith", "20th-century-baháʼís", "21st-century-baháʼís"] description: "Canadian composer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lenz" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Canadian composer ::

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. 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, under the title of Mona's Dream. 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. 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. 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

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Year	Title	Notes
1985	Final Offer	TV movie
1994	To Catch a Yeti
1995	Pocahontas: The Legend
2004	The Passion of the Christ
2008	The Good Witch	TV movie
2009	The Good Witch's Garden
2010	The Good Witch's Gift
2011	The Good Witch's Family
2012	The Good Witch's Charm
2013	The Good Witch's Destiny
2014	The Good Witch's Wonder
Left Behind
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Television

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Year	Title	Notes
1994-1999	Due South	63 episodes
1995-1998	Goosebumps	34 episodes
1999-2004	Nanalan'	Composer and executive producer
2001-2004	Doc	6 episodes
2003-2005	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye	53 episodes
2003-2009	The Saddle Club	46 episodes
2004-2008	Atomic Betty	79 episodes
2007-2012	Little Mosque on the Prairie	88 episodes
2008-2009	Big & Small	21 episodes
2015-2021	Good Witch	73 episodes
2018-2019	Battle Dogs	Producer and composer, ten episodes
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Albums

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Year	Album/Song	Role	Notes
1977	Finale	Flutist
1983	OK Blue Jays	Songwriter
2004	Go Where Love Goes	Performed by Andrea Bocelli on Andrea
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Awards

[[Gemini Awards]]

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Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
1995	Best Original Music Score for a Series	Due South, episode "Free Willie"
1996	Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series	Due South, episode "The Gift of the Wheelman"
2004	Best Pre-School Program or Series	Nanalan'
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References

References

1. "Official Website Bio".
2. [http://www.cherrylane.com/clpub/html/body_filmtvbio.cfm?wid=101337 Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Film and TV Composers, Jack Lenz]
3. "Socan, Archived News 2004, Jack Lenz".
4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221115248/http://www.americandaughter.com/arch_20050527mona.html Mona's Message]
5. "Mona's Dream".
6. Note Mona Mahmudnizhad's story is also the subject of other art works: music artist Doug Cameron's popular song [http://www.sealsandcrofts.com/sealscrofts5.html "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" [https://archive.today/20021112040137/http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Charts/1985/Ch198510.html#1504 "Pop Annual 1955-1999: Sixth Edition" for October, 1985] and as a play [http://www.adressformona.org/storyofmona/storyofmona1.htm ''A Dress for Mona''] {{webarchive. link. (2007-02-02 .)
7. [http://www.millenniumartssociety.org/lenz.htm Millennnium Arts Society] {{Webarchive. link. (2007-09-28 – Jack Lenz in conversation with Joseph Lerner)
8. link. (2004-11-07)
9. "Jack Lenz".

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