Hi, I am Ilja Coric and I live and work as a musician and filmmusic composer in Berlin, my home by choice, a city I love for it`s pace and energy but most of all for the spirit of the people surrounding me.

Music has been my best and most loyal friend and teacher for the greatest part of my life. I sincerely believe that it is one of the greatest gifts to humanity and if you follow it with a true heart it will always lead you on a good path.                            It can truly flourish a blossom within all of us, it is a universal language and it has the potential to connect us with anyone, no matter how different we may appear at first sight.

I started my musical life with playing the piano at the age of five and picked up guitar with 13. Once my ambitions got serious I began studying Jazz guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory and Berklee College of Music.
With moving to Berlin in 2002 I started to see the benefit of computers and soon we became good friends. Meeting lots of people who we’re involved in film felt like a hint so  I switched my focus to composing and producing music for picture.                                What I love most about it hasn’t changed since: It’s the huge variety of emotions I need to translate into music paired with a wide mix of different styles I need to cover.        Combine that with a fruitful exchange of views and ideas with other creative minds involved and you have a passion that hasn’t stopped yet. Berlin also left it marks on me with it’s vibrant techno scene which supported my love for electronic music.

Since winning the VW Score Competition on Berlinale in 2007 I had pleasure of working on numerous films, podcasts, immersive experiences and art installations.
Amongst many other projects I scored the music for many documentaries for                 Arte ( f.e. Russlands Pferde, Faszination Wolkenkratzer ), wrote the music for 5 seasons of the very successful TV series Danni Lowinski, Überall nur nicht hier ( ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel ), both nominated for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis.                                                                                                                             One of my, musically, favorite projects was Things to come for Bauhaus 100                     ( filmic installation for Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle ), I composed the music for one of 2023s most popular Podcasts „ Lubi-ein Polizist stürzt ab ( Studio Bummens ), Utopian garden ( Florafaunavisions, together with Julian Ganzer ), a immersive art experience shown in Seattle that has won the prestigious Gold Award at BrandEx 25, Kannawoniwasein ( co written music with Stefan Maria Schneider ) has won numerous Awards and made a lot of children happy in the cinemas around Europe. For my whole filmography take a look at my IMDB

My passion for electronic music led to productions on labels such as get physical and remixes for artists like Rosenstolz or Booka Shade. A techno live act named Khord          ( together with my friend and long term music buddy Julian Ganzer ) is in the making.

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