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Composer
Among his notable works are Alias María, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 in the Un Certain Regard section, Amazona, nominated for a Goya in 2018, Eles transportan a morte, screened at the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, Carta a una sombra, and Árbol rojo. He is currently working on the series One Hundred Years of Solitude for Netflix.
He has also worked on international productions such as Un caballo llamado elefante by Chilean director Andrés Waissbluth, El encuentro de Guayaquil by Argentine director Nicolás Capelli, I Will Be Murdered by British director Justin Webster, Eles transportan a morte by Canary directors Samuel Delgado and Helena Girón, and O Corno by Galician director Jaione Camborda, which won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival this year.
He has been nominated six times for the Macondo Awards by the Colombian Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences, winning on three occasions: twice for Best Original Score for Amazona (2018) and The Smiling Lombana (2019), and once for Best Original Song with “¿Y Si Fuera Usted?” from the film Salvador (2023). He also won the India Catalina Award for Best Musical Direction for Así Somos by Señal Colombia (2017)
Internationally, he won the Berlinale Talent Campus Film Score Competition in 2010 in Berlin, where Alexandre Desplat was his mentor. He was nominated for the Fénix Awards in 2017 in Mexico for the music of Amazona, the XX Mestre Mateo Awards by the Galician Audiovisual Academy in 2022 for the music of Eles transportan a morte, and in 2023 for the original score of the film O Corno. He won Best Sound and Music with Carlos García for Eles transportan a morte at the 26th Cinespaña in Toulouse.
His musical range varies from electronic experimentation to orchestral composition.
