Ranko Rihtman

[2] Since the 1960s, Rihtman played the organ and piano in several pop and rock bands, such as Čičci, Ambasadori, and most notably with Indexi, of whom he was a longtime member.[2] When he moved to Israel in 1992, at the beginning of the Bosnian War, he worked at Israeli Radio and collaborated with a writer and screenwriter Đorđe Lebović on writing Yugoslavia in Four Movements, which was performed at the Kfar Blum Festival of Classical Music.His work include Miris dunja, film by Mirza Idrizović in 1991, TV series and the movie Moj brat Aleksa in 1997, The Perfect Circle, film by Ademir Kenović, Jasmina, by Nedžad Begović, theater plays Woyzek, Hamlet, and other.[2] He composed the first Bosnia and Herzegovina anthem as an independent state, Jedna si jedina, based on an old Bosnian folk song S One Strane Plive, which he arranged it in 1992, and is also the author of arrangements for the official version of the current national anthem, composed by Dušan Šestić in 1998.[2] In 1992, at the beginning of the Bosnian War, Rihtman moved to Israel where he lived and continued his musical work until 2015.
SarajevopianistcomposerarrangerconductorSarajevo Music AcademyBerklee College of MusicBostonHerb PomeroyAmbasadoriIndexiRadio televizija SarajevoEurovision Song ContestKemal MontenoZdravko ČolićSeid Memić Vajtapop musicGoran BregovićBijelo DugmeDuško GojkovićGianni BassoStjepko GutCzech RadioSarajevo Philharmonic OrchestraSarajevo National TheatreRTV Slovenia Symphony OrchestraSaint Petersburg Glinka OrchestraBosnian WarKfar Blumjazz harmonyarrangingMiris dunjaThe Perfect CircleAdemir KenovićJasminaHamletJedna si jedinaDušan ŠestićTel AvivPorečIstriaMusic of Bosnia and Herzegovina