Jack Lenz

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

Year Title Notes
1985 Final Offer TV movie
1994 To Catch a Yeti
1995 Pocahontas: The Legend N/a
2004 The Passion of the Christ N/a
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 N/a

Television

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

Albums

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

Awards

Gemini Awards

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

References

  1. ↑ "Official Website Bio". Archived from the original on 2015-10-17. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
  2. ↑ Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Film and TV Composers, Jack Lenz
  3. ↑ "Socan, Archived News 2004, Jack Lenz". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
  4. ↑ Mona's Message
  5. ↑ "Mona's Dream". Archived from the original on 2016-03-06. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
  6. ↑ Note Mona Mahmudnizhad's story is also the subject of other art works: music artist Doug Cameron's popular song "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" "Pop Annual 1955-1999: Sixth Edition" for October, 1985[link removed] and as a play A Dress for Mona Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  7. 1 2 Millennnium Arts Society Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine – Jack Lenz in conversation with Joseph Lerner
  8. 1 2 Baháʼí Community of Canada, Canadian Baháʼís > In the News > Jack Lenz Archived 2004-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
  9. 1 2 3 "Jack Lenz". IMDb. Retrieved 21 August 2025.