Visiting Artists

Zeltia Montes

Zeltia Montes is a Spanish composer nominated for a Goya Award in 2016 and a two-time winner of the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Composer. She creates music for film, TV, and documentaries and is passionate about songwriting, concert music, and sound design. Montes has received multiple recognitions, including nominations from the International Film Music Critics Association, the Catalan Academy, the Galician Academy, and the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Her music has also won awards at international festivals, such as the New York City International Film Festival and the Telly Awards.

Patrick Doyle

Patrick Doyle is a Scottish composer known for his film scores across a 50-year career. A frequent collaborator with Kenneth Branagh, he has composed music for over 60 films, including Henry V, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Thor, Brave, and Murder on the Orient Express. He has worked with directors Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, and Brian De Palma, among others. Doyle has received two Academy Award and two Golden Globe nominations, among other accolades, and has won the Ivor Novello Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Awards.

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Teresa Fernández-Valdez

Teresa Fernández-Valdés Calderón is a Spanish creator, showrunner, and executive producer of television series. She is the cofounder of Bambú Producciones (2008-2023), with productions such as Gran Hotel, Velvet, Fariña, Las Chicas del Cable, and Nacho. In 2024, she founded the production company Te espero en Marte.

Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his extensive film scores over a career spanning more than four decades. His notable works include The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Skyfall, 1917, and Elemental. Newman also composed the music for the HBO series Six Feet Under and the miniseries Angels in America. He has collaborated with directors such as Robert Altman, Sam Mendes, and Steven Soderbergh.

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Mariela Besuievsky

Mariela Besuievsky is a film producer born in Uruguay. She graduated from the Municipal School of Dramatic Art (EMAD) and studied film at the International School of Film and Television of Cuba (EICTV). She is known for her work on El secreto de sus ojos (2009), Los crímenes de Oxford (2008), and Al final del túnel (2016).

Rachel Portman

British film composer Rachel Portman is known for her work on Nunca me abandones (2010), Emma (1996), and Chocolat (2000). She became the first female composer to win an Academy Award for the score of Emma and the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award for the film Bessie. She has received two additional Academy Award nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe nomination.  

Paloma Peñarrubia

Paloma Peñarrubia is a Spanish composer known for her work in film, advertising, and performing arts. She has created scores for 16 feature films, nine short films, 11 theater productions, and over 30 commercials. She won the "Biznaga de Plata" at the Málaga Film Festival and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Original Song in 2022 and 2023. Peñarrubia is also the founder of the experimental music project BROMO, performs at major festivals, and is a professor at the University of Málaga.

Iván M. Lacamara

Ivan M. Lacámara is a film composer born in Zaragoza, Spain, especially known for his work for Money Heist (2017), Locked up (2015–2018), El accidente (2018), and The Boat (2011). He has composed the original soundtracks for many television series and short films, as well as additional music and arrangements for films, tours, and records.

Jack Wall

Jack Wall is an ASCAP-award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer known for his cinematic scores in popular video game franchises like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mass Effect, and Myst. He has received multiple awards for his work. Recently, Wall scored the TV series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. He has also composed for TV series like Reign and Emerald City, and the action film Hard Target 2.

Maggie Rodford

Maggie Rodford is an established music supervisor and producer who has worked on many feature films and television series, including The Gladiator, The Lion King, Thor, Pan, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and many others. She has a strong musical background, and has studied piano, cello, and choral music. She is currently managing director of the Air-Edel Group, a California-based firm for music supervision and production services.

Irene Blecua

Irene Blecua is a world-renowned film editor in Spain. She was born in Barcelona and has studied at New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles. She has built a significant body of work, editing more than 30 feature films, and has recently been involved in collaborations with Netflix.

Alberto Iglesias

Acclaimed Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias visited campus to give a clinic to students about scoring for films and his techniques for writing. He is a scholar with classical training, including piano, guitar, composition, counterpoint, and electronic music studies. He has composed music for dozens of films worldwide and has won many awards, including being nominated for several Academy Awards, most recently for his work on the films The Constant Gardener, The Kite Runner, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Alejandro Amenábar

Alejandro Amenábar is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, and composer. Among other honors, he has won nine Goyas, two European Film Awards, and an Oscar. He was on campus to give a talk to the scoring for film, television, and video games program.

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Richard Davis

Berklee’s Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games master's degree program welcomed Richard Davis, author of Complete Guide to Film Scoring, as a visiting professor. During his visit, Davis led a session with students focusing on film scoring and orchestration. In his own words, "A big part of what I teach is storytelling through music. It's also understanding how the music fits in as a partner. It must have an intention and a flow that communicates very specific feelings or ideas to the audience."

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Eduardo Tarilonte

Eduardo Tarilonte is an award-winning sample library developer with many bestselling titles, and a prolific composer who has completed over 300 different musical projects over his 20-year career. He visited campus to speak to students about producing and developing sample libraries and effectively using them in compositions.

Eric Reasoner

Eric Reasoner is a professor at Berklee’s Boston campus in the Film Scoring department. He visited our campus to speak to students about his experience as a music editor and the importance of the position when it comes to composing soundtracks for film. He is a Berklee alumnus and has held the position of supervising music editor at Segue Music. He has numerous major motion picture screen credits, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Lethal Weapon 3, Curly Sue, Swing Kids, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Lethal Weapon 4, and others.

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Federico Jusid

Federico Jusid is a Spanish-Argentinian composer with a prolific career, having composed over 140 works for film and television. Currently based in Madrid and Los Angeles, he recently visited the Valencia campus to host a clinic for master’s students on composition and film scoring. An accomplished pianist, Jusid has performed worldwide and written works for both symphony orchestra and solo piano.

Mason Daring

Mason Daring is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and Emmy-winning composer for film and television. He has worked on more than 70 productions, including major and independent films, and owns his own record label, Daring Records. He came Berklee in Valencia as a visiting professor, teaching classes on film scoring in addition to a class titled Performance Techniques in the Recording Studio.