1. Thomas Kotcheff was born on October 14,1988 and is an American composer and pianist who currently resides in Los Angeles.
13 Facts About Thomas Kotcheff
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Thomas Kotcheff is a winner of a 2016 Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2015 Presser Foundation Music Award.
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Thomas Kotcheff composed and orchestrated music for the soundtrack of the 2023 film Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan which won the Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards and the Best Original Score at the 96th Academy Awards.
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Thomas Kotcheff's parents are Laifun Chung and director Ted Kotcheff, and he has an older sister, Alexandra.
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Thomas Kotcheff began taking piano lessons at the age of 4 and in 2006 he graduated from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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In 2010, Thomas Kotcheff completed a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and then attended USC Thornton School of Music from 2010 to 2019 where he received a Masters of Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in Music Composition.
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Thomas Kotcheff studied composition with Stephen Hartke, Donald Crockett, Frank Ticheli, and Steven Stucky, and piano with Benjamin Pasternack and Stewart L Gordon.
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Thomas Kotcheff serves as Ear Training and Music Theory Faculty at the Colburn School.
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Thomas Kotcheff is a teaching artist at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Composer Fellowship Program.
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Thomas Kotcheff has held residencies at Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's National Composers Intensive, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, The Studios of Key West, and The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.
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Thomas Kotcheff released the world premiere recording of "Songs of Insurrection" on the Coviello Contemporary label.
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In 2014, Thomas Kotcheff founded the new music piano duo HOCKET with Sarah Gibson.
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Thomas Kotcheff provided the score to the 2019 independent film The Planters.