Serge Cote

Serge R. Côté studied Arts and Music at the University of Ottawa. Serge was then offered a keyboardist/composer position with Warner Records’ recording artist “One 2 One”. It brought Serge a close working relationship with producer Leslie Howe and the two worked together on a number of projects including “Alanis Morrissette’s” first two albums. Also, during those years, Serge was a key member of the local bands “Shake the Ghost” and “Joe Gatineau & the Mont-Bleu Rockers”, both winners of the Ottawa “ShareCHEZ 106” contests in 1987 and 1991 respectively. In 1995, Serge co-founded “Atomic Audio”, an audio post production facility were he went on to compose for films, documentaries, television series, animated series, radio/television commercials and industrial videos. His credits include series and specials for CBC, CTV, YTV, The Comedy Network, TVOntario, Family TreeHouse, TFO, TMN, City TV, OLN, The Discovery Channel and many more. He has composed over 500 episodes of music for TV series such as “A World of Wonders” (2008 and 2009 Gemini Award nominations for best score), “Kevin Spencer” (2005 Gemini Award nomination for best score for an animated series), , “Leaps and Bounds”, “Benjamin Bear” and more recently “RollBots”(2009 Gemini Award nomination for best score for an animated series). Serge is currently composing for “Rob the Robot”, a pre-school 3-D animated series and the fourth season of the French dramatic comedy “Meteo +” (three Prix Gémeaux nominations 2009 and 2010 for best music theme and music score)