The Soundcloud page of the composers at the MFA Music Composition for the Screen program at Columbia College Chicago.

You can reach us via the program's director, Kubilay Uner, at kuner@colum.edu

More info at http://www.colum.edu/academics/fine-and-performing-arts/music/program-detail/music-composition-for-the-screen-mfa.html

"Because music, as an art form is essentially playful. We say, “You play the piano” You don’t “work the piano”.
Why? Music differs from say, travel. When you travel you are trying to get somewhere. In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of a composition.
The point of the composition, if that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. And there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord… Because that’s the end!
Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance."

Bijan Olia is an Iranian-American composer/producer. Growing up in Massachusetts, Bijan once dreamt of tickling the ivories at Boston’s Symphony Hall. At Baltimore’s Peabody Institute he majored in composition/computer music and thus a lifelong passion was born. His love of storytelling brought him to composing for visual media. After completing the BMI Composing for the Screen Workshop in New York City,  Bijan packed his bags and headed to Los Angeles.

Since then, Bijan has composed additional music for the Freeform TV Series Siren, Warner Brothers’ Lego DC Superheroes: Brain Drain, and the virtual reality video game Resident Evil VII Biohazard. In 2017 he was selected as a fellow for the Sundance Institute Composers Lab. As a producer he’s collaborated with Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter J. Hoard. 

Bijan also remains active in writing music for the concert hall, having completed commissions by the Oak Tree Group for Streicher, Tasti et Bizarreries (Piano Quartet with toy piano and melodica) and the Contemporary Performance Collective of Los Angeles for Four One Oh! (a piece for two harps). Away from the joys of music, Bijan enjoys cheering for the Boston Red Sox and fantasizing about becoming the next Jonathan Gold, through his Los Angeles food travels.

I write songs and compose music for all media but especially films and video games. What you'll find on this page is all original music composed by me for various music projects.

If you'd like to contact me about potential music projects, feel free to email me at music@stefanorozco.com

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