KATHARINE PETKOVSKI (b. 1997) is a composer and pianist based in Toronto, Canada. Featured on CBC’s list of “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30”, her music has been performed and premiered by celebrated ensembles such as the Bedford Trio, Odin Quartet, and the Exultate Chamber Singers.

 

Awarded the 2024 Diane Loomer Award in Composition, the NDSU Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize, and selected as the winner of the Bedford Trio Composition Competition, Katharine’s music spans multiple disciplines, and is especially passionate about creating music for visual media, scoring films that have shown at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Atlantic International Film Festival, San Francisco Indie Short Festival, TIFF Next Wave Film Festival, and Inside Out Film Festival.

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Katharine holds a BMus in Composition from the University of Toronto ('19), and a MMus in Composition from the University of Toronto ('21), where she received the prestigious Tecumseh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award upon completion. She has been mentored by esteemed composers like James Rolfe, Norbert Palej, and Derek Bermel, and has had the opportunity to work with artists such as JACK Quartet and musica intima. She is an active member of the Screen Composer’s Guild of Canada, the Association of Canadian Women Composers, the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and the Canadian League of Composers.