[4] He pursued graduate studies at the same school in musicology specialising in analysis of 20th-century music, earning an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1970.
He eventually became interested in creating more serious compositions for their own sake, with his 1977 Trombone Concerto being now regarded as his first mature work.
[4] In 1988 Bračanin was composer in residence at the Anglo-Australian Music Festival in Birmingham, England.
[6] In 1995 his Guitar Concerto won the APRA Award for the best Australian Classical Composition.
In 2014 he was composer in residence for the Rottingdean Spring Music Festival at which the oboe concerto, Shades of Autumn, was premiered.