José Ramón Madrid
Music producer and composer for audiovisual media, performer and educator
Qualifications and academic training
- Master in Composition for Film, Television and Video Games Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC)
- Master in Psychopedagogy, specializing in Formal Education Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Postgraduate Course in Techniques and Technologies of Music Production Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ESMUC
- Master in Secondary Education Teacher Training International University of La Rioja (UNIR)
- Higher studies in classical guitar and musical pedagogy Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC)
- Medium-level professional musical studies, Classical Guitar Conservatori Municipal de Lleida “Enric Granados” (2001/2007)
Activity and / or professional career
With more than 18 years of experience as a producer, arranger and orchestrator, he has developed a career marked by his versatility and passion for music. His creative work is focused on music production in general, and more recently, on composing music for animation, advertising and live action. Between 2013 and 2015 he worked as a composer and recording engineer in residence at the Editorial Vicens Vives. In 2022 he founded the production company The House of Polymath, from where he offers comprehensive solutions for all audio and music processes in an audiovisual project.
As a performer, he has given solo concerts and has been part of various groups and is frequently invited to play with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra in special concerts that require guitars or banjo. Between 2014 and 2020, he was part of the Broadway-born show Burn The Floor (1999), with which he spent 6 years touring much of the world, in countries such as Australia, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Caribbean, the United States and France, as a musician for the show and musical director.
As a sound artist, he debuted in 2022 presenting the project [Framed Triggers] at the Centre d’Art La Panera in Lleida.
As a teacher, he has worked for years as a teacher of instruments and musical language (secondary education), and has worked for 5 years in penitentiary centers in Catalonia (El Segre, Can Llupià i l’Alzina, Ponent i Brians II).
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/jrmaal