Education
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Bach graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Rijeka.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Bach graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Rijeka.
He has performed with a wide range of artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Bono & The Edge (U2), Brian Eno, Garth Hudson & Rick Danko (The Band), Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead), John Malkovich, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Sheen and Michael New York His band Vrijeme i Zemlja was formed while he was in college and had two Number 1 albums in Europe (Vrijeme i Zemlja I in 1980 and Greatest Hits in 1988). Bach moved to New York in 1984, and recorded his first United States album, “Greatest Hits” in 1987.
The album, engineered by John Holbrook, features guest artists Garth Hudson (The Band), Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead), Graham Maby (Joe Jackson), David Amram, Michael York, Martin Sheen and others
In 1998 he collaborated on a compilation album with Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Allen Ginsberg and others In March 1999 Bach opened the Mission Universe pageant in Europe.
He scored the Mladen Juran film Transatlantic (1998) the Croatian entry for Best Foreign Film in the 1999 Academy Awards. He has also scored many features and short films, including King of Cool, the biopic about the life of Steve McQueen which premiered on American Movie Classics (Administrative Management College) at 10:00 Prime Minister March 31, 1998.
Bach was a speaker at the TEDxZagreb conference held in Zagreb, Croatia on April 17.
From 2012 to 2014 Nenad Bach served on the Artistic Board for the International Somobor Film Music Festival.
Transatlantic had premiered the a year earlier in Croatian Film Festival in Pula where it won four Golden Arena Awards and was shown in the official program of the festival in Moscow in 1999, as well as in the official competition of the festival in March del Plata, and globally in other world class film festivals.
