About this Artist

Thomas Kotcheff is a Los Angeles-based composer and pianist. His compositions have been described as “truly beautiful and inspired” (icareifyoulisten.com) and “explosive” (Gramophone magazine), and have been performed internationally by The Riot Ensemble, wild Up, New York Youth Symphony, Sandbox Percussion, the Argus Quartet, the Lyris Quartet, the Alinde Quartett, USC Thornton Edge, The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, HOCKET, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble amongst others. Thomas has received awards and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presser Foundation, the Aspen Summer Music Festival, BMI, ASCAP, the RED NOTE New Music Festival, the New York Youth Symphony, the National Association of Composers USA, the American Composers Forum, and has been a composition fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's National Composers Intensive, the Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, the Aspen Summer Music Festival and School, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Thomas composed and orchestrated music for the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and GRAMMY winning score to "Oppenheimer" directed by Christopher Nolan. His additional film credits include "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," "Haunted Mansion," "Origin," "Bob Marley: One Love," "Eddington," and "The Wild Robot" amongst others. He holds degrees in composition and piano performance from the Peabody Institute and the University of Southern California.