About Joaquin

 

Joaquin Garcia is a composer, orchestrator, and conductor specialised in film music. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he studied classical composition and conducting at Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) where he graduated with the Alberto Ginastera award for composing. After finishing his undergraduate, he completed a Master in Scoring for Film, TV and Videogames (Magna cum Laude) at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain. 

 

Between 2017 and 2020, Joaquin worked as a composer and orchestrator for Uno Helmersson, in Stockholm, Sweden. Working for Helmersson, Joaquin collaborated on a variety of projects, included award wining documentaries such as Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen, The Distant Barking of Dogs, by Simon Lereng Wilmont, and The Painter and the Thief, by Benjamin Ree. In this time he also scored the music for Ybing Jiang's animated short movie, Windup, for witch he was awarded best original score at the Sapporo Short Film Festival 2020.

 

He currently lives in Uppsala, Sweden, where he founded his own music studio, Aguara Studios. During 2021 he worked in the BAFTA winner documentary, Fearless: the women against Putin, by Sarah Collinson,

While we Watched, by Vinay Shukla, and several  animation projects including Unity´s latest short, Enemies, directed by Veselin Efremov.

 

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