Diego Lozano | 18/04/88 | Mexico City
Film, acoustic and electroacoustic music composer mainly interested in making music and sound for audiovisual media and cinematographic projects. He has worked on several short films, a t.v. mini series (El Candidato Rayo), seven feature films (“Los Muertos”, “Mientras la Prisión Exista”, “Los Paisajes”, “Armas Blancas”, “Háblame de Ti”, “Good Savage”, “La Infinita”), amongst others. Most of these projects have been awarded and selected in national and international film festivals, such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, FID Marseille, Ventana Sur, Mar del Plata IFF, FICUNAM, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Fest, Guadalajara IFF, Morelia IFF, Guanajuato IFF, Cabos IFF, Riviera Maya IFF, Festival del Puerto, Shorts Mexico.
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 workshops, courses and lessons in composition, music for film, electroacoustic music, acoustic ecology, audio recording, mixing and mastering, video creation and philosophy. In 2020 he received the Beca Legacy Santander scholarship and in 2018 he was selected for the cinematographic refinement gathering Talents Guadalajara. That same year he was granted with the Arturo Márquez Extraordinary Fellowship in Composition (UNAM). His music has been performed in Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Germany and Czech Republic, by a variety of ensembles 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.