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.

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. 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 also makes regular appearances in Asia, conducting the Tokyo, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Osaka and Taipei Philharmonic orchestras. He has conducted all of the major Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Austin, Grand Rapids and Madison symphony orchestras in the US. the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Casino Royale, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Psycho, Star Wars: Episodes IV, V, VI and VII and the first three Harry Potter films. Other live film concerts he has conducted include Pixar In Concert, Star Trek, E.T. As the recipient of the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers, he completed a Master's degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia at New York University, studying with Ira Newborn and Paul Chihara as well as receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring.Ĭontinuing his passion for music and film, he conducted the live-in-concert world premieres of John Williams' Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alan Menken's Beauty and the Beast and Nicholas Hooper's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, where he received the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. He studied Composition with Brenton Broadstock and Dr.

Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and pianist.

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