Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and pianist. He studied Composition with Brenton Broadstock and Dr. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, where he received the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. He recently completed a Master’s degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, as the recipient of the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers.
Nicholas is regularly commissioned and some of his works have been premiered by the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, The Australian Voices, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the Benaud Trio and Concordis Chamber Choir. He has also written for film and television, with some of his work being screened at festivals and theatres around Australia, Asia and the US. In 2007 he was nominated for “Best Original Song Composed for the Screen” in the APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards, and in 2015 was a winning finalist of the NYU Film Scoring Competition.
Nicholas has worked with pop sensation Tina Arena on six Australian tours, writing new orchestral arrangements and conducting the Sydney, Queensland, Adelaide and West Australian symphony orchestras. He has also written arrangements for The Whitlams, Passenger, Stu Larsen and Swiss folk rock group 77 Bombay Street, as well as working on the first four seasons of The Voice Australia. Recent conducting engagements include concerts with Grammy-winning trumpeter Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls fame and the Australian national tour for singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
Continuing his passion for music and film, he has conducted Disney’s Pixar in Concert, Michael Giacchino’s Star Trek Live in Concert, Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho with
Orchestra and most recently the Australian and Japanese premieres of Alan Silvestri’s Back to the Future Live in Concert.