After studying at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria he continued his studies with renowned film composers such as Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Among his film credits are ‘Midway’, ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’, ‘2012’, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ ‘White House Down’, ‘Anonymous’ and ‘10,000 BC’.

For television, he scored more than 40 episodes of the longrunning hit series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. He has also written music for a number of longform projects for television, including ‘Storm Tide’, ‘Dresden’, ‘Sins of the Father’ and ‘RFK’.