MARC SAMBOLA is a composer and music director based in Barcelona.
He won the Premis de la Crítica Award for Best Composition for “La Filla Del Mar” 2021. He was nominated for the Premis Butaca Awards for Best Composition for the same production.
Recently he has been the first Spanish composer to join the 2023 Writers Grove at Johnny Mercer Foundation & Goodspeed Musicals (Annie, Strange Loop, Come From Away) in Connecticut, USA.
HE HAS COMPOSED
the musicals La Filla del Mar and El Projecte dels Bojos for La Barni Teatre; La Tempesta for Parking Shakespeare; Tom Sawyer detectiu, Sihir i la nit de Reis and Les Històries Naturals for Lazzigags Produccions; 14 musicals for Jumping Ducks (musicals to learn English); Artaban, the fourth wise man for Agv and Puça Espectacles; Pornopop and Per si no ens tornem a veure for Aules; Si quieres dulce no pidas calamares and Campamentos for Microteatro por dinero from Madrid; the music for the gala “Catalunya Aixeca el Teló” 2019 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu for Adetca and Nico & Sunset Productions.
Internationally, he has composed Ocaña Königin der Ramblas for the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin (Germany) and is co-author of Possession The Legend Of El Rojo for the Los Angeles Rock Opera Company in Los Angeles (California, United States).
the soundtracks for the films Projecte Rwanda for Bumayé, Ada Media and Boala Films; Marhaba for Boala Films and XTVL; of the series Xadom and Tramaran anar a Mart for Atzucac Films; the shorts Un día especial, Camello por sorpresa and De Vuelta.
the music for the plays Cartes d’Amor for Anexa and La Berta i el seu robot for Lazzigags Produccions, among others.
HE HAS ARRANGED
the musicals Ojos Verdes Miguel de Molina in memoriam and Le llaman COPLA for La Barni Teatre, Ocaña Reina de las Ramblas with Juan Vázquez for Ópera de Butxaca i Noves Creacions; Soundtrack by Roger Berruezo; the songs performed by A Grup Vocal and Punto de Rocío by Daniel Anglès.
HE HAS DIRECTED
the musicals La Filla del Mar, Ojos Verdes Miguel de Molina in memoriam, El Projecte dels Bojos and Le llaman COPLA for La Barni Teatre; Midsummer, a play with songs for Tantarantana Teatre, Albena Produccions and Tanttaka Teatroa; Tom Sawyer detectiu, Sihir i la nit de Reis and Les Històries Naturals for Lazzigags Produccions; Artaban, the fourth wise man for Agv and Puça Espectacles; El Musical Participatiu for La Caixa Foundation. He is also director of A Grup Vocal, a finalist in the second edition of Catalunya’s TV3 programme Oh Happy Day and has been a coach in the third edition of the same talent show contest.
HE WAS NOMINATED
Best Music Composition of the Premis Butaca for “La Filla del Mar” in 2021; Best Musical Director of the Theatre Musical Awards Madrid for “Ojos Verdes Miguel de Molina In Memoriam” in 2010. He was a candidate for Best Soundtrack in The Gaudí Cinema Awards for the movie “Project Rwanda” in 2016.
AS A GUITAR PLAYER
He has taken part in many shows where he has created or arranged music. Also, he continues to keep his role as a songwriter with FRANC and with Mariona Castillo, he has composed and played for The NUS project.
HE HAS TRAINED
As a musician in the Conservatori Professional de Música de Badalona and in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya.
Marc Sambola 
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