Dean Kopri is an academic musician from Croatia where he works as a tamburitza (Croatian national instrument) teacher in a music school and as a conductor of the most successful junior tamburitza orchestra in Croatia and beyond. He has been awarded with twelve "Oskar of Knowledge" awards for exceptional achievements in a music field based on his work with young musicians, and has won numerous first prizes in national and international competitions as both a mentor and a conductor including Annual award of the Croatian Society of Music and Dance Educators in 2021 and Annual award in recognition of exceptional achievements (2019).

Born in 1986 into a musical family, Dean started learning music from a young age playing piano and tamburitza, but was soon composing his own music. Dean likes to say that he inherited two things from his parents - a love of conducting from his mother, and a passion for composing from his father.

Dean has composed a number of compositions for various ensembles, with several awarded by the Croatian Tamburitza Association (Tambura Variations in 2017 and Memento in 2020). Together with his sister, Dean wrote a pop-rock musical "Legend of a Rose Town" which premiered in 2015. He also composed a soundtrack for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Honey-tongued Theatre Productions, London, and for the musical show "Kiteenarium" which was performed in Kitee, Finland, in 2017 for Finland's 100th birthday. Between 2014 and 2019, Dean was a music director of Kitee International Music and Art Festival in Kitee, Finland. 

Dean's latest work are soundtracks for Species: Unknown and Propagation: Paradise Hotel video games by WanadevStudio from Lyon, France. He is featured as a guest musician on Peter Connelly's "Tomb Raider: The Dark Angel Symphony" album with his version of a Tomb Raider-inspired theme. He is a composer for an awarded animated short Tomb Raider: The Myth of El Hawa featuring Jonell Elliott (voice of Lara Croft in Tomb raider 4-6). He's also an official composer for  the end credits theme from Tomb Raider Reloaded game.