Sergio J. Lacima is a Spanish-born composer and conductor based between Los Angeles, CA, and Madrid, Spain. Over the last 15 years he has amassed more than seventy screen credits, including upward of 50+ projects as lead composer across film, television, and interactive media.
Lacima has worked with a number of high-profile creatives, among them Academy Award-winning director Alejandro Amenábar on The Captive and While at War; Emmy Award-winning writer-producer Ronald D. Moore on Outlander; and director Jonathan Mostow on The Hunter’s Prayer. In the record arena he provided string arrangements for Latin Grammy– and MTV Award-winning rock icon Enrique Bunbury and his album Palosanto.
Recent assignments include HBO Max The Ayotzinapa 43: State Crime, Amazon’s original docuseries The Challenge: ETA and The Challenge: 11M, Starzplay/The Mediapro Studio’s thriller Express—the platform’s first Spanish original—and Netflix originals Rosa Peral’s Tapes and The Last Hours of Mario Biondo, Amazon Exclusive series Real Madrid: The White Legend and Alejandro Amenabar's films The Captive and While at War, among others. For U.S. audiences he has contributed additional music to Marvel/ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Starz’s Outlander, and collaborated on Activision’s record-setting video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Chinese video game Love of Light and Night, recording with pianist star Lang Lang.
His music has been published in more than 20 records, either as main composer (soundtracks) or as a collaborator, being some of them released by labels such as Amazon, Warner Music and Activision Publishing, among others. He has worked with different orchestras and players around the world, such as the Hollywood Studio Symphony, the London Philharmonia, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and other European, Latin-American and Asian ensembles and performers, recording at world-renowned studios such as the Newman Scoring Stage (Fox) and the Barbra Streisand Scoring Stage (Sony Pictures) in Los Angeles, CA, or Abbey Road Studios and AIR Lyndhurst Hall in London, UK.
Lacima’s work has been distinguished with more than thirty international honors, among them three Dominican Academy Awards for Best Original Score, the Alex North Award, and repeated long-list selections for Spain’s Academy Awards and the Platino Awards.
Grounded in classical music yet fluent in contemporary sound design, Lacima skillfully blends traditional and modern influences, crafting unique and captivating scores for narrative and interactive media. Also, he is an Associate Professor in the Master of Music in Scoring for Film, Television and Video Games at Berklee College of Music (Valencia) while continuing to collaborate with filmmakers and showrunners on both sides of the Atlantic.