Bijan Olia

Bijan Olia is an Iranian-American composer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Early life and education Olia was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Iranian father and an Italian-American mother. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and studied piano at the All Newton Music School. He is a 2007 graduate of Newton South High School. Olia attended the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where he majored in computer music, composition and minored in piano performance. During his last year at Peabody, Olia interned for Dan Deacon, where he arranged and performed piano on Deacon’s America album. After completing the 2012 BMI Composing for the Screen Workshop in New York City, Olia moved to Los Angeles. Career Film and television Olia’s film credits include scores to Better Half, Miracles Happen Elsewhere, and songs featured in 80 for Brady and FOX’s Animal Control. He has written additional music for Freeform’s Siren, Warner Brothers’ Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain, and Netflix’s The Lost Pirate Kingdom. Concert music Olia’s concert works include his piano quartet with toy piano and melodica, Streicher, Tasti et Bizarreries, which premiered at the Will Geer Theat