Diego Lozano | 18/04/88 | Mexico City
Film, acoustic and electroacoustic music composer and sound designer mainly focused on making music and sound for cinematographic arts. He has worked on short films, feature films, documentary, t.v. mini series, video performance and web video; most of which have been selected and presented in national and international film festivals such as IFF Rotterdam, FID Marseille, FF Hamburg, Tallinn Black Nights FF, BUFF Malmö, IFF India, Ventana Sur, Mar del Plata IFF, FICUNAM, Morelia IFF, Guadalajara IFF, Guanajuato IFF, Cabos IFF, Riviera Maya IFF, Black Canvas FCC, Shorts Mexico, FI Danza Jalisco, amongst others.
Diego studied a Bachelors in music at the Centre for Research and Studies in Music (CIEM) and a Masters in composition at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has studied with Enrico Chapela, Victor Rasgado, Arturo Márquez and Pablo Silva, and has also participated in lessons and courses in composition, music for film, electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, audio engineering and video creation. In 2020 he received the Beca Legacy Santander scholarship and in 2018 he was selected for the cinematographic gathering Talents Guadalajara. That same year he was granted with the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Fellowship in Composition (UNAM). His concert music ranges from vocal, instrumental (solo, ensamble, orchestra), mixed media and electroacoustic music, and has been performed in Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Germany and Czech Republic, by a variety of ensembles and musicians, and has been awarded and presented in several national and international competitions and festivals. His scores are published by Periferia Music of United Music & Media Publishers: ummpstore.