Alejandro Román

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 seventy 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 group of camera "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, Julián Lopez Elvira, 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.