Diego Lozano. 18/04/88. Mexico City.
Composer and sound designer specialized in making music and sound for film. Diego holds a Bachelor’s in music from the Centre for Research and Studies in Music (CIEM) and a Master’s in composition from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He studied composition with Enrico Chapela, Victor Rasgado, Arturo Márquez and Pablo Silva, and has participated in courses and workshops in film music, electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, sound design, mixing, mastering and video creation. In 2020 he received the Beca Legacy Santander scholarship to study audio engineering at The Recording Workshop (OH), and in 2018 was selected for the Talents Guadalajara cinematographic gathering. That same year he was awarded the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Fellowship in Composition (UNAM). He is cofounder and member of Runa Records, a music and audio production studio in Valle de Bravo, Mexico State, and his scores are published by Periferia Music of United Music & Media Publishers.
His concert music spans instrumental (solo, ensemble, orchestra), vocal, mixed media, electroacoustic and sound installation, and has been performed in Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Germany and Czech Republic by ensembles and musicians such as Molinari Quartet, Cuarteto Arcano, Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata (OJUEM), Tempus Fugit, Solistas Ensamble, Diego Espinosa, among others. His music has been presented in venues including Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Palacio de Bellas Artes, University Museum of Contemporary Art and the Montreal Conservatory, and has received recognition in national and international festivals and competitions such as the Manuel Enríquez International Forum of New Music (MX), International Call for Mixed Media Pieces Mega Jury (AR), Quatuor Molinari International Composition Competition (CA), Vancouver New Music Festival (CA) and Samadis International Composition Competition (NY).
In film, Diego works on short films, feature films, documentaries, tv series, video performance and web content. Many of these projects have been selected by national and international festivals such as Venice International Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Sarajevo FF, FID Marseille, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Mirage FF, Oldenburg IFF, Tallinn Black Nights FF, FF Hamburg, BUFF Malmö, Santa Barbara IFF, IFF India, Tokyo IFF, Mar del Plata FF, Sao Paulo FF, Ventana Sur, FICUNAM, Morelia IFF, Guadalajara IFF, Guanajuato IFF, Los Cabos IFF, Riviera Maya IFF, Black Canvas FCC, FI Danza Jalisco, among others.