Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert

Nicholas Buc is an award-winning composer, conductor, and arranger with more than 20 years of experience in the music industry. He has composed music for film, television, and the concert hall, with some of his work being screened at festivals and theatres around Australia, Asia, and the United States. As the recipient of the prestigious Brian May Scholarship, he completed a master’s degree in scoring for film and multimedia at New York University, receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for film scoring. 

He recently completed work on the new Australian feature film Slant, starring Sigrid Thornton and Pia Miranda, which won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2022. He also scored the Ukrainian documentary Slava, which won Best Short Film at Byron All Shorts Flickerfest 2023. 

He has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, and Australian pop sensation Tina Arena. He has written arrangements for Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins, and Vera Blue as well as working on Junior MasterChef, The Voice Australia, and the 2021 AFL Grand Final. 

Nicholas is highly sought after as a conductor for live film concerts, having conducted the world premieres of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lion King (2019), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Shrek 2, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. 

He is the only person in the world to have conducted all three original Star Wars films in concert…in one day!