Dr. Igor Karaca is a Bosnian composer and pianist of classical and jazz music. Most of Karaca's work has been for chamber ensembles and electronic media. He employs a wide variety of techniques, ranging from controlled aleatoric, free-jazz inspired textures, to more traditional, neoclassical style; he usually aims to make his work accessible to a relatively large audience. Igor Karaca comes from a musical family. His father was an accomplished jazz saxophonist, and principal clarinetist of the Sarajevo Symphonic Orchestra, and his mother was a music instructor.

After taking private music lessons, Karaca studied music at Sarajevo University and the Academy of Music in Sarajevo under Josip Magdic and Andjelka Bego-Simunic. He graduated in 1996 with a BA in music composition, and has since been a guest at different masterclasses in Europe, working with Boguslaw Schaeffer, Helmut Lachenmann, M.A. Dalbavie and Marco Stroppa, among others. His works have been performed throughout Europe.

In 1999 Karaca came to United States to study composition with Dr. Thomas Wells at the Ohio State University, from which he received his DMA in 2005. Since coming to Ohio State University, he has been the recipient of the Ruth Friscoe award for composition (2000) and was 2001 Composer-in Residence with the Ohio State University Symphony Orchestra. Igor Karaca is also the first recipient of the Marilyn and Donald Harris Scholarship in Music Composition.

He has written two symphonies, suite for concert band, concertante works for clarinet and piano, eight electronic and electroacoustic compositions, over seventy chamber compositions, including the award-wining Wind Trio and Handful of Dust for bass clarinet and piano. Karaca composed dramatic scores for two motion pictures Sarajevo War Diary and Tell Me Your Name Again, and three theater plays Twelfth Night, Fate of a Cockroach and Requiem for "Bird" Parker.

Igor Karaca was also a member of Sarajevo Jazz Quartet, jazz quintet Happy End and Bosnian pop-rock band Punkt, for which he played piano, Hammond organ and electronic keyboards.