Award-winning Cellist, Music Editor (DGC) and Composer/Producer Kirk Starkey is the unique sound behind many major network television programs and advertising campaigns. Equally at home on the concert stage or editing in the studio, Kirk enjoys a creative and multi-dimensional career based out of Hamilton ON (Canada).
An experienced session cellist with a beautifully equipped studio, Kirk delivers Pro Tools sessions that arrive ready to mix. Recent credits include Anne With An e (CBC/Netflix), Hannibal (NBC), Orphan Black (BBC America), Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV), Flashpoint (CTV/NBC), and X Company (CBC).
Kirk has been a member of Platinum selling classical-crossover ensemble Quartetto Gelato since 2017, and joined the Director’s Guild of Canada in 2022.
What collaborators say:
“We are a big fan of your work and ideas. The melody down and upper octave is perfect thanks! Also your ideas and effects, lovely … What a sound and feel you have. Beautiful, congrats!” Yumo Ito (Basel, Switzerland)
“Kirk is a film composer’s dream. Send him a score or a midi file and within a few hours you get back a beautifully performed and recorded performance, inspiring and technically perfect for film deadlines. Thank you Kirk!” Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner, Composers (Toronto, Canada)
“There a few very good string libraries out there such as LA Strings, Vienna, Project Sam, but for cello, I have this crazy tool that rules for everything – Kirk Starkey” Ian O’Brien Docker/DamienDamien (Hamburg, Germany)