Dieter Hartmann’s musical story starts in Vienna, Austria, where he swapped textbooks for drumsticks at eleven and never looked back. By his teens was already working in a music store and performing nightly. At nineteen, he left Austria for Los Angeles with little more than determination and a dream of making music his life.

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The path wasn’t straightforward. For years, Dieter balanced recording and touring with odd jobs-including house painting and working at a Storage Facility while steadily sharpening his craft.

 

In 2002, a chance introduction to a television producer’s wife brought him into the world of scoring, and he quickly discovered his passion for writing music to picture. Within a year he was composing for five different television shows, turning his small apartment kitchen into a starter studio.

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Determined to push his skills further, Dieter studied composition, orchestration, and film scoring at UCLA, all while building his career. By 2009 he had broken into feature films, video games, and scripted television, and collaborating with industry leaders such as Lorne Balfe, Tyler Bates, Junkie XL, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Henry Jackman, Roger Neill and many others.

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Now based in New York’s Hudson Valley, Dieter continues to compose for projects of every scale. When time allows, he also mentors emerging composers, sharing the lessons of a career built on persistence, creativity, and a lifelong love of music.