Composer/
Producer Nir Averbuch is owner of Muzikhead Productions, where
he scores and records music for film, TV and commercials and
produce albums and re-mixes for major and independent artists
and labels.
Nirs
recent compositions include music for Alfred Hitchcock's "Secret
Agent" and the classic horror movie "Night Of The Living
Dead", which sound-tracks' were completely remade and transformed
into a wacky urban comedy (2003 York Entertainment), Original
music score for the award winning documentary film "One of
Us" by Rina T. King, Electronica albums (FirstCom Music/ BMG),
which are being used by major film and tv studios around the
globe (most recently used in the TV show Access Hollywood),
as well as commercials for AIG, Avis, Honda, Clarity, American
Express, Microsoft, Merck, Intuit, Disney Store and EarthLink,
and the original theme music for the "Tim Chip and Lisa" radio
show on Sacramentos
KXOA 93.7 FM.
Nir was born in Kishinev, Moldova in 1971, to a family of artists.
At the age of 5, Nir had his first piano lesson in the Kishinev
Conservatory of Music. In 1978, the family migrated to Israel,
where at age 16 he became the house composer/ producer of his
hometowns local studio. At age 18, Nir produced his first
commercial album and three years later he received his first
Gold Record award for programming and co-producing a major label
album of the international artist Shlomo Gronich and the Sheba
Choir. Nirs decision to migrate to the U.S. in 1997 evolved
from his need to expand professionally and experience world-class
music composition and audio production.Nir began his new music
career at Sound Designers Studio in Manhattan, where he soon
became the main engineer. Nir worked on the award winning TV
series "Law & Order", "New York Undercover" and the feature
film "Bound", as well as Broadway shows such as John Leguizamos "Freak",
Paul Simons "The Cape Man", "The Sunshine Boys" and more.
In 1999, after Nir established his own studio in Manhattan where
he produced various artists and commercials, he relocated to
Los Angeles to co-found Dynamics Direct Inc., where he served
as the Director of Audio and Music Productions and co-developed
the companys proprietary audio technology, which enables
personalized rich-media commercials to stream directly into ones
e-mail.
Recently,
Nir relocated Muzikhead Productions back to Tel-Aviv, Israel,
where he continues to provide cutting-edge music production
services to his US clients through innovative internet technologies
as well as to
local labels, artists and ad agencies.
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