About

David Sebastian Buus started his career as a composer at the age of 19, after ending a 7 year career as an actor, culminating in the part of Feivel Mouskewitz on the Danish soundtrack for Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster An American Tail. 

He landed his first composing job when he wrote the score for Seasons Of Blood And Hope which featured at the Vienna Film Festival and Amnesty International Film Festival. Soon after, he was composing music for multiple Danish TV networks. By the time he was 28 David's music would be playing somewhere in Denmark on average 5 times a day.

In 2006 he arrived in New York at the same time as a jingle he had written for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation the year before won a prestigious Promax Award. Over the next 7 years he built a portfolio of music for prominent clients such as Apple, Disney, Barclay’s and Acura. His music for a short film produced for Georg Jensen and presented by WallPaper in 2011, garnered much attention at Milan Design Week where it played continuously to an estimated 300,000 visitors. David was also commissioned to write the score for a short film showcasing the collaboration between designer Todd Bracher and 3M. This film was featured at New York Design Week.

His music has also been featured in many short films shown at festivals all over the world including two Cannes Film Festival shorts (Exit & The Pact), and a recent short film (Sand Castle) at Toronto International Film Festival. 

David continued composing scores utilized by international brands like BMW, Vanity Fair and Lego, and numerous times by Swatch, the renowned Swiss watchmaker. This includes a commercial that aired on MTV during the MTV Music Video Awards (2012). In the following years David wrote original music and served as a music consultant on 4 additional worldwide advertising campaigns for Swatch.

David’s music appears in diverse industries, including film, advertising, high-end audio and education. His music sets the haunting backdrop of the Sony Pictures Entertainment movie Stranger Within, starring William Baldwin and Estella Warren. The Sundance Channel currently features David's music between programming. Bang & Olufsen commissioned David to musically accentuate the features of their wireless sound in an advertisement short. Also, the New York University’s Economics Department recently commissioned David to write a jazzy score for an educational film.