Filip Mitrovic a.k.a. The Elkcloner is a Serbian-American composer and producer from Los Angeles, California. In 2012, he was nominated for Daytime Emmy Award in the category ''Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series'', and in 2015, Mitrovic was nominated for Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Mitrovic's music was premiered at

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in 2010.

Early life

Mitrovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. Since his father was a musician and producer as well, Mitrovic grew up surrounded by music. He began playing guitar at age 8 and was soon immersed in the musical world. In 2000, Mitrovic took advantage of a full scholarship at Chicago College of Performing Arts in Chicago, Illinois, to study Music Composition & Orchestration. After graduating, Mitrovic moved to New York City to work for the film music collective tomandandy, where he contributed his original music to many Hollywood blockbusters and TV commercials. He later worked as an assistant to

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Film & TV Scoring Career

After venturing out on his own, Mitrovic collaborated with Jon Batiste and The Blue Man Group to create the opening credits theme music for George Lopez's blockbuster '' Spare Parts'' ( Lionsgate), starring Marisa Tomei and Jamie Lee Curtis. He then created the main titles theme music for Netflix original series '' Four Seasons in Havana''. These two engagements led Mitrovic to scoring numerous films and TV shows, including the Hollywood feature ''Manhattan Undying'' (

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's ''

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'' documentary series about Cuban prodigy musicians, and Marija Stojnic's ''Speak So I Can See You'' (''Doc Fortnight'', Museum of Modern Art, NYC).

Tuney

In 2019, Mitrovic co-founded ''Tuney'', an AI-assisted, auto-score-to-picture music platform for content creators. In 2020, the company joined ''MuckerLab'', a startup accelerator in Santa Monica.

Ear Candy Shop

In 2015, Filip Mitrovic and Antony Demekhin founded ''Ear Candy Shop'', a boutique music production house for advertising, providing music for TV campaigns. Clients include TED (conference),

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, Facebook, Hennessy, American Eagle and others.

Dark Bardo

In 2021, Mitrovic partnered up with producer Andy Baldwin to create ''Dark Bardo'', a music production duo inspired by a mysterious package from an anonymous sender that contained a plastic sherrif's badge, a Cuban cigar, and a copy of ''Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'', a novel by

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. The first double single is set to release in 2022, featuring the artists

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and Nini Fabi ''( Haerts)''.

Films

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitrovic, Filip Living people American people of Serbian descent American male composers 21st-century American composers Musicians from Brooklyn Daytime Emmy Award winners 1979 births 21st-century American male musicians