BIOGRAPHY

Roman Kovalik was born in Switzerland to Czech parents who immigrated from the Communists Regime after the Prague Spring in 1968. He discovered his passion for music early in his life following in his father's footsteps and taught himself to play the violin when he was 5 years old. Roman felt an urge to express his ideas beyond the limitations of just one melodic line and he started to take private instructions on piano. When he turned 11 years old, Roman was performing as a classical concert pianist in Switzerland. He composed his first piece "Hymn to the Past" at the age of eight, which was recorded by the band Succubus and broadcasted on national Swiss radio stations.

At the age of 13, Roman picked up the electric guitar, founded the punk band Sprengkoerper as lead singer/ guitarist, wrote over 30 pieces, handled promotion and booking and toured nationally for four years. In 1996, Roman also founded the melodic orchestral rock band Succubus together with singer Philipp Gloor. With Succubus , Roman was able to express his creative ambitions in a larger musical vocabulary with classical instrumentation. Succubus toured all over Europe and played as a headline act at international Music Festivals until April 2003, at which point Roman decided to split up the band to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Besides those two bands, Roman has worked on lot of different projects such as writing the music for an annual theatre production ("Much Ado about Nothing" by Shakespeare in 1999, "Kabalen & Lieben" by T. Hugentobler in 2000, "Merlin" by T. Dorst in 2001). He composed a classical choir prelude for the Avantgarde Metal Opera "Shining Bright Mourningside" and orchestrated Remo Borggi's composition, who is the mastermind behind the legendary European metal band Messiah . In addition, Roman was arranging popular songs into rock music for the party rock band Zersprengte Koerper .

Since he came to Berklee College of Music in 2003 (Dual Major in Film Scoring and Music Business/ Management), Roman has earned a Certificate of Excellence in Composition, received the Berklee Achievement Scholarship, won several composition competitions - such as the Esterhazy String Quartett Competition, New Piano Compositions in 2005 and the Pop/Rock Show in 2004. He was on the Dean's List several times - an award for excellent academic achievement.

During his studies, Roman has continued his extra-curricular activities and has scored a movie ("Sick", directed by Matt Sulivan), has written music and has done the sound design for two video games ("Asteroids" and "Chevalier", created by Russel Lowke) and has performed as pianist for an original band ( Ashley Farrel Band ) as well as with cover bands ( Faith No More, Led Zeppelin ) in and around Boston.

Since Roman's relocation to Los Angeles in Summer 2006, he worked on a vast variety of projects as a composer, arranger and producer. He wrote scores for short movies (Katrina Frey's, Echo Park, Hard Feelings, Bullet in the Brain), composed additional music for documentaries and TV Series (Without the King, Day Break) and produced tracks for a fashion show (Space Style 2007). He also works as a Composer Assistant for Mark Kilian (Rendition, Tsotsi (Oscar for best foreign movie 2006)) and Christopher Young (Spiderman 3, Hellraiser) and transcribes and arranges popular songs for Sound Art. Roman is currently producing a full length album for the Londoner pop singer Coco (Nakedstate) at his home studio in Santa Monica, using the latest music computer applications, excellent sound libraries and a variety of synthesizers/pianos, guitars and percussion instruments.