Composer Details

Alberto Iglesias

Spain’s most acclaimed composer, Alberto Iglesias’s early musical training included the piano, guitar and composition as well as electronic music studies. His considerable experience in film composition began in the 1980s with Spanish directors such Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Médem, Iciar Bollain and Carlos Saura. With Almodóvar he has produced some of the most beautiful and memorable collaborations of music and film. He has also worked with directors Oliver Stone, Fernando Meirelles, John Malkovitch and Marc Forster. His film accolades include Academy award nominations for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Skin I Live In, The Constant Gardener and The Kite Runner.

‘One of my greatest joys is to watch a composer spread his wings, and create the most affecting moments in film. Alberto Iglesias score for the Kite Runner is a continuous movement within the story telling, never overlapping itself. Nothing is ever ended or dismissed, and nothing is ever begun and finished. His score is like a wheel created by senses, where the senses are set whirling into the infinity of space. It is timeless, spaceless and moving.’ Marc Forster

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Mina (2012), Blancanieves (2012), Carnage (2012), Le Moine (2011), The Skin I Live in (2011), Jose e Pilar (2010), Even the Rain (2010), Broken Embraces (2009), Musik und Meer (2008), Los Abrazos rotos (2008), Che Parts 1 & 2 (2008), The Kite Runner (2007 - Academy nomination, BAFTA nomination, Golden Globe nomination, Satellite Award winner), Volver (2006 - CEC winner, Spanish Music Award winner, Goya winner, Spanish Music Award winner, European Film Award winner), The Constant Gardener (2005 - Academy nomination, BAFTA nomination, World Soundtrack winner, Satellite Award nomination, Cannes winner), Bad Education (2004 - CEC nomination, Spanish Music Award nomination, World Soundtrack Award nomination, European Film Award nomination), Take My Eyes (2003 - CEC winner, Spanish Music Award nomination, European Film Award nomination), Terror In Moscow (2003), Comandante (2003), Talk To Her (2002 - CEC winner, Goya winner), The Dancer Upstairs (2002 - ROTA Soundtrack Award), Sex and Lucia (2001 - Goya winner), All About My Mother (1999 - Goya winner, Spanish Music Award winner, CEC nomination), La part de l'ombre (1999), Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998 - Goya winner), Live Flesh (1997), La Femme de Chambre du Titanic (1997), Live Flesh (1997), Pasajes (1996), Tierra (1996 - Goya winner), Earth (1996), The Flower of my Secret (1995), Una Casa en Las Afueras (1995), La Mujer de tu vida 2: La mujer gafe (1994), Dispara! (1993), La Ardilla Roja (1993 - Goya winner), Vacas (1992 - Goya winner), La vida lacteal (1992), El sueño de Tánger (1991), Autumn Rain (1989), Lluvia de otoño (1988), Martín (1988), Balada da Praia dos Cães (1987), Las seis en punta (1987), Bilbao Blues (1986), Adiós pequeña (1986), Iniciativa privada (1986), Memoria universal (1986), Luces de bohemia (1985), Fuego eterno (1985), La muerte de Mikel (1984), La conquista de Albania (1984), Guipuzkoa Donostia: Costa Guipuzcoana (1983), Ikusmena (1980), Pasaje (1980)