Cesar Benito

Cesar Benito Fernandez is a composer, orchestrator, conductor and music producer originally from Marbella, Spain. He is best known for composing the music scores of some of Spain's most critically acclaimed and commercially successful TV series in recent years, including La Chica de Ayer (Spanish remake of BBC's Life on Mars), Los Protegidos and the international hit The Time in Between (El Tiempo Entre Costuras), a period drama that in 2013 broke a twelve years old record with the highest ratings for an opening of a prime time TV series in Spain. That record was broken again in 2015 by the comedy series Allí abajo, also scored by Benito, making the #1 prime time TV series in Spain for three consecutive years and running for a total of five seasons. Other recent works by Benito include the prime time TV shows Benidorm and Desaparecidos (currently on its second season).

Cesar Benito
Background information
Genres	Film score, Film music, Pop rock, Musical theatre
Occupation(s)	Composer, Songwriter, Conductor, Performer, Producer
Instrument(s)	Piano, guitar, ukulele
Website	cesarbenito.com

El Tiempo Entre Costuras soundtrack album reached #2 on Spain’s iTunes Store Albums, and #1 on the Soundtracks category. It also won numerous awards, including Best Music for Television by the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Television of Spain, and is one of the most played TV soundtracks worldwide on Spotify. Tema de Sira, the first track on the album was the music chosen by Spanish gymnast Carolina Rodríguez to accompany her ribbon routine on competitions around the world, including winning an olympic diploma at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Benito studied piano, music theory and composition and graduated with honors at the Conservatorio de Malaga (Spain). He also studied jazz arranging and composition in Madrid and moved to Boston to enter the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he graduated magna cum laude with a dual B.A. in Film Scoring and Contemporary Writing & Production. And was granted the Arif Mardin Award for excellence in Music Production & Arranging.