Gary Koftinoff

Gary Koftinoff is an ASCAP and SOCAN award-winning composer of music for film and television. He and co-composer Phillip Bennet recently received another Canadian Screen Award nomination, “Best Original Music, Drama” for their work on the popular series Hudson & Rex (CITY TV/ ION). Gary has also received CSA nominations in 2014, 2022 and 2023. In 2018 he won an ASCAP Screen Award ‘Top Cable Television Series’ and a SOCAN Award ‘Domestic Television Music, Fiction’ for his work on the medical drama Saving Hope (CTV/ION TV), and in 2005, he won a Gemini Award (now known as the “Canadian Screen Awards”), “Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series” for Dark Oracle (YTV). In 2007 he won a Film & TV Music Award, “Best Score for a Non-Animated Children’s TV Program” for the popular 70-episode Disney/Family Channel series Life With Derek.

Gary has earned three other Gemini nominations for his work on over 30 films and over 350 series episodes, all composed for a client list that includes: NBC, Disney, CTV, CITY TV, ION TV, ICF, CMT, Shaftesbury Films and Lifetime, & Sony. Gary and Philip are currently scoring the 7th season of Hudson & Rex. 

Gary loves working in a wide array of musical styles, from large orchestral scores with live players, (as he did for the feature films Left Behind II and Judgment), where between 45 and 60 musicians were recorded, to more contemporary, popular styles, and is also a gifted songwriter and vocal performer. Strong, identifiable themes and poignant symphonic arrangements are an integral part of Gary’s signature sound, as is his passion for the art of film scoring.