About this Artist

Nascuy Linares is a renowned Venezuelan musician and filmmaker. He has had a prolific career as a composer, arranger, and musician for film and television. His original music compositions have accompanied prestigious films such as Embrace of the Serpent (Academy Award nominee) by Ciro Guerra, Tocar y luchar by Alberto Arvelo, Maroa by Solveig Hoogesteijn, Los Silencios by Beatriz Seigner, and Luxor by Zeina Durra, among more than 40 titles. Together with the Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt, he composed the soundtrack for the Venezuelan-Spanish co-production Una Casa con Vista al Mar, starring Imanol Arias. He won the Ibero-American Cinema Platinum Award for best original music and was a recipient of an artistic residency for young Latin American composers at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (U.S.), awarded by the UNESCO-Aschberg program. He has also collaborated with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a video editor and stage manager. He has a degree in Audiovisual Media and a Master’s degree in Post-Production from Bournemouth University in England.