KATHARINE PETKOVSKI is a Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, working across film, concert music and interdisciplinary media. Her music draws on minimalist textures and acoustic instrumentation, with storytelling and collaboration central to her practice.

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Named one of CBC's "30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30", Katharine has received commissions from the VOCA Chorus of Toronto, Exultate Chamber Singers and Resound Choir, with performances by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, musica intima, the National Youth Choir of Canada and Odin Quartet. Her choral work When Music Sounds received Choral Canada's 2024 Diane Loomer Award and the 2023 Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize, while her Piano Trio No. 1 was selected as winner of the 2021 Bedford Trio Composition Competition. In 2026, she received the SCGC Rising Talent Award at the Canadian Screen Music Awards.

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Katharine's recent screen collaborations include Abdullah Khan's Saint & the Sea, Maggie Lemere's Land of Canaan and Scott Jones's Freedom, for which she received first prize in the animated category of the 2024 SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards. Films featuring her scores have been presented at the Vancouver International Film Festival, BFI Flare and TIFF Next Wave. Music from her independent catalogue has been licensed for The Encampments (Watermelon+) and Netflix's Ronaldinho: The One and Only, as well as for programming from the NBA, CBC Gem, ESPN, PBS and the Criterion Channel.

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Katharine has participated in Soundstreams' RBC Bridges Emerging Composers Program, the Amadeus Choir's Choral Creation Lab and the SOCAN Screen Music Lab, presented in partnership with Ubisoft. She holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Composition from the University of Toronto, where she received the Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award.