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Joel Lindberg
Joel Lindberg is a versatile cellist and composer from the north of Sweden, graduating with honors from Berklee College of Music as an award-winning Film and Media Scoring student. He is passionate about film and media composing, orchestrating, and conducting, and loves playing a large variety of genres on the cello. Moving forward he's continuing to build his career in Los Angeles, California, and he's excited about the opportunity to pass along what he’s learned to others!
While living in Boston, Joel got his career as a session cellist started. He played on countless student projects, as well as film scores, contemporary classical recordings, and popular music releases outside of college. He performed in events involving successful composers Pinar Toprak and Amie Doherty, and had the privilege of being Principal Cellist in a recording session with Grammy-winning Hollywood legend Alan Silvestri.
Also during his time at Berklee, Joel was the Principal Cellist of the Berklee Motion Picture Orchestra, the college’s largest student-run ensemble, performing at renowned venues such as Jordan Hall and MIT Kresge Auditorium. Joel served as Event Coordinator and PR Manager for the orchestra, which was awarded the 2024 Campus Program of the Year Award during his tenure. He had his film & TV music arrangements performed by the ensemble during their spring 2024 concerts, including an arrangement performed together with Audire Soundtrack Choir.
As a film composer, Joel was the Berklee student of lowest semester level to be selected in spring 2023 for the Screen Scoring Department's most prestigious opportunity: getting his original composition recorded at the renowned Power Station Studio in New York City. He took the competitive Advanced Orchestration course, where only 6 out of hundreds of Screen Scoring students are selected each semester, conducting and recording his original cues with a full orchestra on a weekly basis.
Through this course, he was able to do score preparation for award-winning composer Stephanie Economou. Joel studied with many esteemed professors, including Vivian Aguiar Buff, Director of Music at DreamWorks, and Grammy and Emmy winner Claudio Ragazzi.
In recognition of his academic achievements, Joel was chosen as the spring 2024 recipient of the Michael Kamen Award, and as one of the 2024 winners of Berklee's Commencement Processional Composition Competition, which led to his original piece being performed during the 2024 Commencement Ceremony in Agganis Arena. Before coming to the U.S., Joel studied contemporary music composition at Gotland School of Music Composition in Sweden, and was top of his class studying Jazz & Contemporary Music Performance on cello at Dublin City University in Ireland.
Even earlier than that, he was the Principal Cellist in his regional youth orchestra in Sweden, and then went on to play in the international Nordic Youth Orchestra. Joel was also a member of an indie folk band, as cellist, keyboardist, and arranger, doing festival and arena performances. Additional credits include recomposing Mozart’s Requiem with other collaborators as part of an internship at the non-profit organization Classical Uprising. He scored short film for Peruvian director Renzo Flores Linares, and composed music for a dance production at the North Sweden Opera.