Hill Kourkoutis is one of the most revered and cherished music contributors from Canada. She is an accomplished producer, songwriter, composer, artist, musician, and director who works out of her Toronto studio, The Lair. In 2022, Hill became the first woman to be nominated and win Recording Engineer of the Year at the Juno Awards.
Hill also played on, produced, mixed, engineered, and/or co-wrote singles and albums for a number of Juno-nominated and Juno-winning artists such as Aysanabee, Leela Gilday, Serena Ryder, Digging Roots, Amanda Rheaume, and SATE.
For television, along with Serena Ryder, Hill co-wrote and produced the theme song and the end title song for Universal Kids’ animated children’s series Remy and Boo, which was one of the overall Top Three preschool series premieres of 2020. Hill also produced and co-wrote the theme song for Disney’s series Dino Ranch, the #1 rated preschool series in the United States. Most recently, Hill co-wrote and produced episodic songs for Seasons 1 and 2 of Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.
As a musician, Hill has had the honour of playing with artists such as The Weeknd, Serena Ryder, and Tara Slone. For two seasons, she performed on the CTV series, The Launch, as lead guitarist in the show’s house band.
PRESS:
TapeOp – May 2023
Music Connection – April 2023
Eastern Door – March 2023
Make Music Matter – November 2022
BK On The Scene – August 2022
BYTA – May 2022
InSauga – May 2022
Newswires – May 2022
CBC – April 2022
Slow City – March 2022
Winnipeg Free Press – March 2022
Billboard – March 2022
The Globe and Mail – March 2022
InSauga – March 2022
Eat This Music – July 2021
Music Connection – July 2021
FYI Music News – July 2021
Eat North Podcast – July 2021
NNSL Media – April 2021
Salt Wire – April 2021
The Globe And Mail – February 2021
Music Republic Magazine – September 2020
Common Ground – December 2019
Canadian Music – October 2019
Music Life Magazine– August 2019
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – June 2019
PROFESSIONAL SOUND Magazine – April 2019
SOCAN Magazine – December 201
Canadian Musician – September/October 2018
