Paul Swoger-Ruston was born in Toronto in 1968. He began his professional career as a guitarist, touring and recording with rock and jazz bands including the popular Canadian band King Apparatus, and is currently performing and recording as a freelance guitarist supporting several singer/songwriters including Jonathan Cooke (France), Kirsten Jones (Can), and Clara Engels (Can). His film music collective Resolver (co-founded with Mitch Girio and Morgan Doctor) composes and produces music for film and television (recent work includes a 26-part series for the Discovery Channel (USA), documentaries for The CBC and The Showcase Network (CAN), and a feature length). He is primarly an avant-garde composer. Swoger-Ruston has had works premiered in the USA, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and Russia. He recently completed a PhD in Theory and Composition at Dartington College of Arts (UK), and have received several awards including The Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) Butterworth Award, the Marion Lower Prize in Composition, the Long & McQuade Guitar Scholarship, 2 CASBY Awards (with band King Apparatus), and his piece 'For Muted Piano' was selected for the SPNM 2003/04 Shortlist. 04 March 2006