Federico Jusid is an award-winning and Emmy & BAFTA nominated composer who uses his passion for the concert hall to influence his compositions for film and television.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Federico has Spanish citizenship and resides between Los Angeles and Madrid. As the son of renowned Argentine film director Juan José Jusid and actress Luisina Brando, he grew up among stages and film sets. His passion for music and cinema soon led to his career as a film score composer having now scored more than eighty feature films and thirty television series.

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Federico has recently composed the score for Paramount’s A Gentleman in Moscow starring Ewan McGregor, and Hugo Blick’s The English for Amazon/BBC, an internationally acclaimed western drama series starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer for which Federico was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Score: Fiction and an IFMCA Award for Best Series’ Original Score, as well as being Indiewire’s Best TV Score 2022.

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Other recent credits include Apple TV+'s comedy drama Land of Women starring Eva Longoria, Netflix's crime drama The Asunta Case which was inspired by the true events of two parents who report their young daughter missing, Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes (La mirada del adiós) which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2023, and the BBC and Netflix animated miniseries Watership Down which was nominated for an Emmy Award.

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Federico’s earlier film scores include the Oscar-winning film The Secret In Their Eyes as well as Neruda, Loving Pablo, Misconduct, Kidnap and 7 Years, the last of which he was also Executive Producer with the theatrical version premiering in Spain, France, Greece, Argentina and Mexico. Upcoming projects include Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows for Disney+ and starring Stephen Graham.

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Federico’s concert hall compositions including Tango Rhapsody, Kinetic Overture and Bidaia have been performed worldwide by orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel for the Hollywood Bowl and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires. As a pianist and conductor, he has performed as soloist in some of the most recognised concert halls in the world including New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra House of Tel Aviv and the National Auditorium of Madrid.