Thomas Buritch is a highly professional, wonderfully creative and
extremely versatile composer of music for motion picture, radio and
television, theater and other multimedia. His incredible musical
talent, his amazing musical sensitivity and imagination, as well as his
excellent knowledge about music theory allow him to compose,
orchestrate, arrange and to produce music in any given style or genre.
He was born in 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia, and began with his musical
education at the age of 5 at the Zagreb primary and later high schools
of music, majoring in both cello and piano concert performance. His
talent was discovered very early on, and he was very soon recognized as
one of the best young music performing artists in former Yugoslavia, as
well as later on in Croatia, performing in many concerts all over
Europe. He graduated from high school in 1990, and immediately enrolled
to begin his academic studies at the prestigious Music Academy of
Basel, Switzerland, majoring in cello performance in the class of one
of the world's finest cello performing artists, Prof. Antonio Meneses.
He earned his Master's Degree in 1995. Thomas started composing soon
after his studies in Switzerland. His first composing teacher was one
of the most recognized contemporary music composers in the United
States of America, Dr. Frank Ticheli, during his first visit to the U.
S. in 1997. He also took private lessons from Prof. Berislav Sipus,
professor at the Music Academy of Zagreb. In the year 2000 he was
accepted to the highly prestigious program in Scoring for Motion
Picture and Television at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles. There he was professionally trained in all aspects of music
composition and production for any type of motion picture, by a faculty
of some of the best film composers of all times, such as David Raksin
("Laura", Otto Preminger), Leonard Rosenman ("Rebel Without a Cause",
feat. James Dean), Elmer Bernstein ("To Kill a Mockingbird", feat.
Gregory Peck), Norman "Buddy" Baker ("The Fox and The Hound", feat.
Mickey Rooney), Christopher Young ("Entrapment", "The Gift",
"Swordfish", "Spider-Man 3") and several others. After completing his
studies at U. S. C., Thomas spent two more years working in Hollywood.
He was immediately hired to write and produce the music for two feature
films: "1st Testament CIA Vengeance" (written and produced by Ron
Becks, directed by Young Man Kang), and "The Deep Black Hole" (produced
and directed by Yorgo Ognenovsky), as well as numerous short films,
such as "The Powder Puff Principle", written and directed by John
Burgess, featuring Linda Blair ("The Exorcist"). In 2003 he moved back
to Zagreb, Croatia, where he scored the music for the entire first
season of the television series "Antiquities". He is meanwhile also
very active in the pop- music industry, writing and/ or arranging and
producing songs for many Croatian celebrity artists such as Ana Rucner,
Vesna Pisarovic, Nina Badric, or Croatia's most recognized opera singer
Tomislav Muzek (performances in The Vienna Opera House, La Scala Di
Milano...), and many others. In 2005 he wrote the orchestration for the
hip-hop hit- single "We Gonna Win", released in the U. S. A., performed
by "The Hip-hop Violinist" Miri Ben- Ari featuring Styles- P, produced
by Dash and Ohad "Big O" Ben- Ari. His next upcoming project is to
score the music for a documentary about Croatia directed by one of the
country's most recognized directors, Jakov Sedlar ("Gospa", feat.
Martin Sheen and Michael York). (Update: 2009)
