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Joseph Julián González

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  • Music Department
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1940- The Nazis invade a neutral Holland and Jews are later deported. Jack, his wife and his new love, Ina, find themselves in the same barrack in a concentration camp. When Jack's wife objects to the  'girlfriend' in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack
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Joseph studied classical guitar from Theodore Norman and composition for motion picture and television from famed film composer David Raksin (Laura, Forever Amber) at UCLA. After touring with several groups, Joseph started off his career by becoming music director of Luis Valdez's (La Bamba, Zoot Suit) much heralded theater company El Teatro Campesino. There he composed the music score for La Pastorela, a PBS Great Performances Christmas special, launching a career composing pieces performed by such artists as Los Lobos, Jose Feliciano, Kronos String Quartet, Linda Rondstadt, as well as working and collaborating with Quentin Tarantino and Slash from Guns 'n Roses.

He has composed a multitude of musical scores for film and TV including the Academy Award-nominated documentary Colors Straight Up, the Emmy Award-winning Made In LA, and Showtime's longest running Latino series Resurrection Blvd. His latest project, the 6-part miniseries, Latino Americans, recently won the 2014 Peabody award.

His symphonic and choral work, Misa Azteca, performed for a sold out crowd at Carnegie Hall earning a standing ovation in February 2011. Opening Mexico's prestigious Festival Cervantino Internacional and having been performed at the American Cathedral in Paris, the Sorbonne, the Sydney Opera House, the St Denis Music Festival, and most recently a packed Walt Disney Concert Hall, Misa Azteca has touched and inspired people throughout the world.
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Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, Pam Grier, Michael Keaton, and Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown
7.5
  • Soundtrack("Chicks Who Love Guns" (1997))
  • 1997
Colors Straight Up (1997)
Colors Straight Up
7.2
  • Composer
  • 1997
S.O.S/State of Security (2010)
S.O.S/State of Security
7.4
  • Composer(as Joseph Julian Gonzalez)
  • 2010
Angela Jones in Curdled (1996)
Curdled
5.9
  • Composer
  • 1996

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Composer

  • Willie Velasquez Your Vote Is Your Voice (2016)
    Willie Velasquez Your Vote Is Your Voice
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2016
  • Fields of Promise (2016)
    Fields of Promise
    • Composer
    • TV Short
    • 2016
  • America Reframed (2012)
    America Reframed
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • East of Salinas (2016)
    East of Salinas
    • Composer
    • 2016
  • Independent Lens (1999)
    Independent Lens
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2015
  • James Dean with two local children on location in Marfa, TX for George Steven's film, Giant. Summer of 1956.
    Children of Giant
    • Composer
    • 2015
  • Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine (2015)
    Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine
    • Composer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2015
  • Paulina Cerrilla in Family Dinner (2014)
    Family Dinner
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2014
  • Latino Americans (2013)
    Latino Americans
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2013
  • Rebel (2013)
    Rebel
    • Composer
    • Video
    • 2013
  • Meddling Mom (2012)
    Meddling Mom
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2012
  • Los Americans (2011)
    Los Americans
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • The Washingtons of Sulgrave Manor
    • Composer
    • 2011
  • We Have Your Husband (2011)
    We Have Your Husband
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2011
  • S.O.S/State of Security (2010)
    S.O.S/State of Security
    • Composer (as Joseph Julian Gonzalez)
    • 2010

Music Department

  • America Reframed (2012)
    America Reframed
    • musician
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Deann Borshay, Angela Davis, Peter Dinklage, Dr. Riyadh, Bonita Dearmond, and Mohamed Bangura in P.O.V. (1988)
    P.O.V.
    • musician: guitar
    • TV Series
    • 2007
  • Angela Jones in Curdled (1996)
    Curdled
    • orchestrator
    • 1996

Actor

  • All You've Got (2006)
    All You've Got
    • BBQ Family Friend
    • TV Movie
    • 2006

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    • Joseph Julian Gonzalez
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    • Monique ValadezJune 9, 2012 - present
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