Don Caron

For over 30 years Don has been active in the entertainment industry as a composer, choreographer, dancer, pianist, sound designer, screenwriter and author. He has composed and recorded four albums of Ballet Class Music which are published and distributed by CdBaby. He co-wrote the screenplay and wrote the choral/orchestral score for the feature film The Basket, released in 1999 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He has composed and recorded four albums of Ballet Class Music which are published and distributed by CdBaby.

He co-wrote the screenplay and wrote the choral/orchestral score for the feature film The Basket, released in 1999 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Basket was awarded The Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival, Director's Gold Award at the International Family Film Festival, and the Best Film for Families by MovieGuide Awards.

His screenplay "The Pull" was awarded a Platinum Remington for Best Romantic Screenplay at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival in 2008.

* Positions Held: Founder and former Director of Composers' Conspiracy
* Founder and former Director of Art Growers Association
* Director of Audio Services for North by Northwest Productions.
* Sound Supervisor and Resident Composer for North by Northwest Productions and North by Northwest Entertainment.
* Screenwriter and Composer for the feature film ?The Basket? (1999 MGM).

* Awards include: Composer of the Year (2002) - Washington State Music Teachers Association.
* Feature Film, ?The Basket?
o Best of Fest - Breckenridge Festival of Film.
o The Crystal Heart Award - Heartland Film Festival.
o Director's Gold Award - International Family Film Festival.
o Best Film for Families - MovieGuide Awards.
* Screenplay, ?Different Drummers? (Hatcher/Caron)
o Grand Remington (2007) Best Screenplay All Categories
o Platinum Remington (2007) Best Family Screenplay
o Best Screenplay Award (2007) - San Fernando International Film Festival.
* Screenplay, ?The Pull? (Caron)
o Platinum Remington (2008) Best Romantic Screenplay - WorldFest Houston
o #1 recommended original music album at BuyBalletClassMusic.com

Don Caron is best known for his albums of Ballet Class Music which were written and recorded between the years 1985 and 1994.
He recorded a series of four albums which are titled The First Class Albums, Music for Ballet Class.

The first was released in 1990 and is known as The White Volume. He followed it up with The Red Volume in 1991, The Yellow Volume in 1993, and The Blue Volume in 1994.

Interestingly, all four of these albums were released on vinyl and are now out of print in that format. One of the limitations of vinyl as it relates to Ballet Class Music is that the amount of material a record will hold is limited compared to a CD. For that reason, in 2010 Caron re-released all four albums with a full CD's worth of material on each so that they would be competitive with newer ballet releases from other artists. These albums carry the same titles, The First Class Album, with the exception that the word "revised" has been added.

The four updated albums are The White Volume Revised, The Red Volume Revised, The Yellow Volume Revised, and The Blue Volume Revised.

Don Caron's other albums include Four Ambiguous Options, an album of chamber music recorded and released in 2003, The Legendary Davenport Hotel which is a soundtrack album for the documentary by the same name created in 2002, and Victor, The Musical, a two CD set of a full length sung-through musical based on the book Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. Victor was released in 2004 and was a collaborative effort with lyricist Kimberly Hinton.

Caron also has a major work for string orchestra featured on the CD album Celebrating Six Years at the Met, an album which he produced in 1997 which features works by a variety of Washington State Composers.