Jay Semko

Jay Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series Due South. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes, and also been nominated twice for a Gemini Award and received two awards from the Canadian Music Publishers Association for his songwriting.

Biography

Semko's first solo album, Mouse was released in 1995 following the (at-that-time) end of The Northern Pikes in late 1993. During this time, Semko was music composer for the Due South television series, (Pilot movie and 66 episodes 1994-1998, with co-composers Jack Lenz and John McCarthy), for which he received two Gemini Award nominations (1995 and 1996 - Best Original Score in a Dramatic Series). He subsequently has scored numerous other television series and films (see IMDB resume), and has released five solo albums. The Northern Pikes reunited in 1999, and continue to record and perform.

As a songwriter, Semko has co-written in Nashville and Canada with such writers as Willie Mack, Gilles Godard, Andrew Fromm, Roger Springer, Larry Haack, Jack Lenz, Tim Taylor, Steve Fox, Daryl Burgess, Sean Hogan, Paul Gross, and David Keeley. He has recorded with other artists including Garth Hudson (of The Band), the late Stan Celeste (of Jackson Browne & Crosby, Stills and Nash), John Sebastian...
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