KATHARINE PETKOVSKI is a Canadian composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her work moves between concert music and visual media and is shaped by restraint and silence, with close attention to rhythm, atmosphere, and emotional pacing.

 

Named by CBC as one of its “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30,” her music has been performed by ensembles including the Happenstancers, Odin Quartet, Vancouver Chamber Choir, musica intima, and the National Youth Choir of Canada. She has participated in Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Emerging Composers Program, the Amadeus Choir Choral Creation Lab, musica intima’s novum musica, and the SOCAN Screen Music Lab, presented in partnership with Ubisoft. Petkovski received first prize in the SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards, as well as the Diane Loomer Award in Composition and the NDSU Edwin Fissinger Composition Prize. Her original scores have accompanied films presented at BFI Flare, the Vancouver International Film Festival, TIFF Next Wave, the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, and the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. Across original scores and licensed works, her music has appeared in projects including Ronaldinho: The One and Only (Netflix), The Encampments (Watermelon+), and Breaking Big Food (Prime Video / Apple TV), as well as on CBC Gem, ESPN, PBS, and the Criterion Channel. In 2026, she was nominated for the Rising Talent Award from the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.

 

Petkovski holds BMus and MMus degrees in Composition from the University of Toronto, where she received the Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award. She is a member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, the Association of Canadian Women Composers, and the Canadian League of Composers.