Biography
Mladen Milicevic is a Bosnian composer of experimental music, sound installations and film scores. Born in 1958 in Sarajevo, he comes from a family of filmmakers; his father was a cinematographer and his mother Zlata a film editor. He began playing piano at the age of six and studied music composition at the Sarajevo Music Academy, receiving a BA in 1982 and an MA in 1986.
Milicevic moved to the United States in 1986, earning an MA in experimental music composition from Wesleyan University in 1988 and a DMA from the University of Miami in 1991. He later became Professor Emeritus and long-time Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In the former Yugoslavia he worked as a freelance composer for theatre, film, radio and television, and produced a platinum-selling pop band under the alias Igor Krik.
He is best known for composing the score to the 2003 cult film The Room. His other film credits include The Elder Son (2006) and the documentary Room Full of Spoons (2016).
