Katharine Petkovski is a Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, working across film, documentary and concert music. Her screen work includes Land of Canaan, Saint & the Sea, Blind Hockey and Coin Slot, with licensed music featured in Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the World and The Encampments. She won First Prize in the 2024 SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards for Freedom and is a 2026 nominee for the SCGC Rising Talent Award.
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Katharine Petkovski is a Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, working across film, documentary and concert music. Her screen work includes original scores for Land of Canaan, Saint & the Sea, Blind Hockey and Coin Slot, alongside licensed music featured in projects including Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the World and The Encampments. She received First Prize in the Animation category of the 2024 SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards for her score to Freedom and is a 2026 nominee for the SCGC Rising Talent Award. Her concert music has been performed by ensembles including the Vancouver Chamber Choir, musica intima, Exultate Chamber Singers and the National Youth Choir of Canada. She holds BMus and MMus degrees in Composition from the University of Toronto and was named one of CBC Music’s “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30.”

2020
She/Her
Minimalistic, Orchestral, Sound Design
Documentary, Independent Film, Studio Film, Television, Short Film
Composer, Orchestrator
White / Caucasian / European
SOCAN

Saint & the Sea (2026)
Land of Canaan (2025)
Freedom (2024)

2026 — The SCGC Rising Talent Award, Nominee

2024 — SOCAN Foundation Emerging Screen Composer Awards, First Place, Best Original Score – Animated, Freedom

2024 — Diane Loomer Award, When Music Sounds

2023 — NDSU Edwin Fissinger Choral Composition Prize, Emerging Composer, When Music Sounds

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