Dika Chartoff Dika Chartoff Los Angeles Dika’s music is a sound-designed collage of intimate and introspective images that range from minimalist textures to layered complexity and powerful soundscapes. Her music has been described as a "vivid and eclectic sound journey" that blurs genres into a unique fingerprint. Dika's recent scores include a feature film Corazon Azul (2021), as well as the DGA student award Grand Prize winner and BAFTA-nominated live-action short, Variables. Among her credits are two Sundance selected films; Knife Point and Memories of Overdevelopment, as well the student Academy Award winner, Down in Number 5. Dika was born and raised in Sarajevo, spent her teenage years in Germany as an inspired refugee, studied and lived in the US and New Zealand; and presently lives with her husband Bill, daughter Jazzy, and their exuberant dog Heidi in Santa Monica, California. She holds a Master's Degree in Music (piano) from the University of Colorado in Boulder where she studied with David Korevaar. She has been under the mentorship of concert composer Robert Paterson and film music composer Rob Simonsen. Dika is a proud member of the Alliance of Women Film Composers (AWFC), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), and executive board member of the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC - West LA). Dika Chartoff’s tracks The Middle by Dika Chartoff published on 2021-03-03T07:15:03Z Acrobat / Erase Function by Dika Chartoff published on 2020-11-16T23:44:31Z "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun" by Dika Chartoff published on 2021-01-14T22:51:54Z
