Alejandro Román
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Alejandro Román (Madrid, Spain, 1971), composer and pianist, studied with
Valentin Ruiz, Antón García Abril and Zulema de la Cruz at the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Madrid, graduating as a Senior Lecturer in
Composition, and piano accompaniment. Has conducted specialized courses
with Miguel Zanetti, Giancarlo Simonacci, Carmelo Bernaola, Adolfo
Nunez, Emiliano del Cerro and Jean Claude Risset among others,
attending various meetings with composers such as Christopher Halffter,
Leonardo Balada, Krzysztof Penderecki and Philip Glass.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the UNED, for his research "Musivisual Analysis, an approach to the study of film music", as he discusses the connections between the language of image and musical language.
His catalog contains more than eighty works for piano, voice, guitar, orchestra, chamber, electroacoustic and pedagogical music, popular modern music (jazz, pop) and music for film, theater and dance. On the performing side, he belonged to different groups of Jazz and Rock, with whom he recorded a dozen albums.
His works have been interpreted by, among others, the Orchestra of the City of Prague, Philarmonía Orchestra, the group of camera "Sonor Ensemble", directed by Luis Aguirre, "Soloists of Seville" directed by Miguel Ángel Gris, "Modus Novus", directed by Santiago Serrate, "Sax Ensemble", directed by José Luis Temes, Trío Arbós, Claudio Ianni, Pilar Jurado, Ara Malikian, Manuel Ruiz Salas, Eduardo Costa, Sergei Mesropian, Sebastián Mariné, Rosa Maria Calvo-Manzano, Pedro López Salas, etc.
He has received several awards for composition, including the prize Juan Crisostomo Arriaga's "XVI SGAE Prize for Young Composers" for his work "Ménades" and the Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the "Festival de Cine de Zaragoza" in the movie " Niño Vudú "by Toni Bestard. In 2015 received the National Award "Cultura Viva" in the specialty of "Music".
He has taught courses and lectures on film music in film schools, universities and conservatories, disseminating the importance of music as a language in relation to the image. He is the author of several books, including "The Language Musivisual, semiotics and aesthetics of film music", "Analysis Musivisual" and "Composition Musivisual".
For years he has taught various subjects at the Escuela de Música Creativa ("School of Creative Music" in Madrid), has been professor of composition at the conservatories of El Escorial and Alcalá de Henares, the University Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) and the University International of La Rioja (UNIR), and now he is the professor of Composition for Audiovisual Media of the Royal Conservatory Music from Madrid, where he launched the Classroom "CINEMA" (Composition and Research in Audiovisual Media). In the present he is the director of the Master "Technologies of the Soundtrack Composition and Music for Videogames" of the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM).
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the UNED, for his research "Musivisual Analysis, an approach to the study of film music", as he discusses the connections between the language of image and musical language.
His catalog contains more than eighty works for piano, voice, guitar, orchestra, chamber, electroacoustic and pedagogical music, popular modern music (jazz, pop) and music for film, theater and dance. On the performing side, he belonged to different groups of Jazz and Rock, with whom he recorded a dozen albums.
His works have been interpreted by, among others, the Orchestra of the City of Prague, Philarmonía Orchestra, the group of camera "Sonor Ensemble", directed by Luis Aguirre, "Soloists of Seville" directed by Miguel Ángel Gris, "Modus Novus", directed by Santiago Serrate, "Sax Ensemble", directed by José Luis Temes, Trío Arbós, Claudio Ianni, Pilar Jurado, Ara Malikian, Manuel Ruiz Salas, Eduardo Costa, Sergei Mesropian, Sebastián Mariné, Rosa Maria Calvo-Manzano, Pedro López Salas, etc.
He has received several awards for composition, including the prize Juan Crisostomo Arriaga's "XVI SGAE Prize for Young Composers" for his work "Ménades" and the Award for Best Original Soundtrack of the "Festival de Cine de Zaragoza" in the movie " Niño Vudú "by Toni Bestard. In 2015 received the National Award "Cultura Viva" in the specialty of "Music".
He has taught courses and lectures on film music in film schools, universities and conservatories, disseminating the importance of music as a language in relation to the image. He is the author of several books, including "The Language Musivisual, semiotics and aesthetics of film music", "Analysis Musivisual" and "Composition Musivisual".
For years he has taught various subjects at the Escuela de Música Creativa ("School of Creative Music" in Madrid), has been professor of composition at the conservatories of El Escorial and Alcalá de Henares, the University Alfonso X el Sabio (UAX) and the University International of La Rioja (UNIR), and now he is the professor of Composition for Audiovisual Media of the Royal Conservatory Music from Madrid, where he launched the Classroom "CINEMA" (Composition and Research in Audiovisual Media). In the present he is the director of the Master "Technologies of the Soundtrack Composition and Music for Videogames" of the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM).
