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, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and the National Youth Choir of Canada. She has participated in Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Emerging Composers Program, the Amadeus Choir Choral Creation Lab, 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. Petkovski has scored films presented at BFI Flare (Coin Slot), Vancouver International Film Festival (Saint & the Sea), and TIFF Next Wave (With Love from Munera). Across original scores and licensed works, her music has appeared in projects including Ronaldinho: The One and Only (Netflix), Q (Tribeca Festival), The Encampments (Watermelon+), and Calm Beneath Castles (Red Bull TV), as well as in programming from the NBA, CBC Gem, ESPN, PBS, and the Criterion Channel. In 2026, she received a Canadian Screen Music Award nomination for Rising Talent.

 

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.