ABOUT

GREAT GARBO is a music production company founded in 2004 with studios in Switzerland and Australia. 

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a very versatile and multi award-winning composer team. The Swiss/Australian siblings compose and produce original music for international advertising campaigns, TV series and feature films. 
They have composed music for over 350 campaigns for brands such as Carlsberg, Head&Shoulders, LG, Mastercard, Nivea, Sony, Swiss & Dove (3rd most viewed online campaign of all time in 2014). 
They have also composed the film music for the world bestselling children’s book adaptation and box office hit The Little Witch, the international remake of Til Schweiger’s box office hit Head Full of Honey starring Emily Mortimer and Academy Award Nominees Nick Nolte & Matt Dillon, the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin as well as The Reformer Zwingli for which they were nominated for “Score of the Year (Public Choice)” at the World Soundtrack Awards. Most recently they have composed the score to the Irish Western In the Land of Saints and Sinners starring Academy Award Nominees Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon & Ciarán Hinds. Their music for TV series like The Unlisted (Netflix), Itch (ABC) and Born to Spy (ABC) have each earned them an Australian Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Score in Television”.

The Baldenwegs are respected for their collaborative spirit and strong sense of dramaturgy. They bring an open minded approach to projects and have the ability to compose unique and convincing music to a broad range of projects. With their musical versatility and solid sense for effective collaborations they have also built up a strong network of music engineers, acclaimed musicians, top orchestras and conductors including maestro David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Kevin Griffiths, Pepe Lienhard, Dirk Brossé and star violinist Daniel Hope. Their music has been rewarded with many prestigious awards and nominations and has been played on radio stations including Swiss National Radio, Klassik Radio and BBC Radio 3. 

DIEGO BALDENWEG  -  chief creative music, composer, co-founder (imdb)

NORA BALDENWEG  -  creative consultant, co-composer, co-founder (imdb)

LIONEL BALDENWEG  -  chief creative business, co-composer, co-founder (imdb) 

Official Artist Name for Feature Films / TV Series: 

DIEGO BALDENWEG with NORA BALDENWEG & LIONEL BALDENWEG

Official Artist Name for Advertising / Audio Branding:

GREAT GARBO 

They are voting members of the World Soundtrack Academy, European Film Academy, Swiss Film Academy, Australian Academy of Cinema and TV, ADC - Art Directors Club Switzerland & Europe, AGSC (Australian Guild of Screen Composers) and SONART (Fachbereich Film- & Medienmusik)