In 2024, Joel graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee, as a World Tour Scholarship student doing a Bachelor of Music in Film and Media Scoring. He was chosen as the spring 2024 recipient of the Michael Kamen Award, and as one of the 2024 winners of Berklee's Commencement Processional Composition Competition. He also worked as an orchestrator for Classical Uprising, working on Mozart's Requiem Renewal which was premiered in Maine fall 2024.  Before studying in Boston, Joel studied classical/contemporary music composition at Gotland School of Music Composition in Sweden, and was top of his class studying Jazz & Contemporary Music Performance on cello at Dublin City University in Ireland. Additionally, he has been awarded the Anders Sandrew Scholarship to fund his studies—one of Sweden’s largest grants for young artists and creators. At Berklee, Joel began his session cellist career working for the Screen Scoring Department. He also worked as the Public Relations Manager, Event Coordinator, and Principal Cellist for the college's largest student-run ensemble Berklee Motion Picture Orchestra, awarded the 2024 Campus Program of the Year Award during his tenure. He received career mentoring from Vivian Aguiar-Buff, Director of Music at DreamWorks. Additionally, Joel took the competitive Advanced Orchestration course, where only 6 out of hundreds of screen scoring students are selected each semester. Through this course, he had the opportunity to do score preparation for first-ever Grammy winner in the video game score category Stephanie Economou. In spring 2023, Joel was the student of lowest semester level ever to win a competition which allowed him to record his original music at the legendary Power Station Studios. Joel has also played cello in projects involving successful Hollywood composers such as Alan Silvestri, Aldo Shllaku, and Pinar Toprak. Additional credits include being the music composer for the dance production Svallarna i Skogen performed at the North Sweden Opera, and playing cello in the international Nordic Youth Orchestra as a teen.