Gary Koftinoff is a Canadian

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

composer of music for film and television. In 2018 he won an

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Screen Award for Top Cable Television Series and a Socan Award for Domestic Television Series for his score on the medical drama

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(CTV/ION). Saving Hope (Ion) accumulated the most credits on Amazon, Hulu and Netflix during the 2017 survey year of ASCAP. In 2014 he received a CSA Nomination "Best Score for a Dramatic Series" for Saving Hope. In 2005 he received a

Gemini Award The Gemini Awards were awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television between 1986–2011 to recognize the achievements of Canada's television industry. The Gemini Awards are analogous to the Emmy Awards given in the United States ...

for Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series for "

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" (YTV), and in 2007 he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Non-Animated Children’s TV Program for the 70 episode Disney Channel series " Life With Derek" (Disney/Family Channel). Additionally, Koftinoff has had three other Gemini nominations for his work on over 30 films and over 200 episodes of television, all composed for a client list that includes NBC, CTV, Lifetime/Sony, Chesler/Perlmutter Ent., Shaftesbury Films, Screendoor, Cloud Ten Productions and Peace Arch Entertainment.- Gary Koftinoff"
imdb.com; retrieved February 18, 2016. Recent work includes his scores for ''Salem Falls'' (Lifetime), ''The Devil's Teardrop'' (Lifetime/Sony) and ''Valemont'' (MTV). For the film '' Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story'' (CBC) Koftinoff created the large-scale sound of the original score which earned him a Gemini nomination for Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series in 2007. Some of his more traditional, scores such as for the feature films ''Left Behind II'' and ''Judgment'', were written for live orchestral performance, using between 45 and 60 musicians. From his early studies of piano and guitar, Koftinoff moved on to harmony, composition and conducting under the tutelage of Roman Toi at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He also earned a recording engineer certificate from the Trebas Institute for the Recording Arts. Koftinoff lives in

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, BC.

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