Jim McGrath (pronounced McGraw) is a Toronto-based composer best known for his film and television work, which includes ThinkFilm's The Last Mogul : The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman, Alliance Atlantis' film Foolproof, Columbia Tristar thriller Resurrection and Odeon's Treed Murray, which was nominated for five 2001 Genie Awards including Best Picture and Outstanding Achievement in Music. The score for Treed Murray went on to win Gold in the 2002 Film Festival in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Also busy as an orchestrator and conductor, he has orchestrated and conducted film scores with the Munich Symphony, the Salt Lake Symphony, the London Philharmonia and the City of Prague Philharmonic. He has also done arrangements for such recording artists as Tom Cochrane, Ian Thornley and Big Wreck, the Tower of Power Horns, Manteca, Universal Honey, The Northern Pikes and Sarah Slean.

Recent commissions include Trois Hommages for brass quintet, commissioned by the Guelph Spring Festival for True North Brass, Silent Town for trumpet and orchestra for the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony's principal trumpet player Larry Larson,and a flute concerto for the Montreal Chamber Orchestra.

Both orchestral works appear on the recently released Cinmatique, a CD of some of Mr. McGrath's concert music.

Jim is currently scoring his seventh season of CTV's award-winning series Degrassi: The Next Generation, for which he received the 2006 Gemini Award for Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series.