Spain’s most acclaimed living composer, Alberto Iglesias, was born in San Sebastian in 1955. His early musical training included the piano, guitar, and composition as well as electronic music studies.
Iglesias first wrote for film in 1980. He quickly developed close working relationships with the best of avant-garde Spanish directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Médem, Iciar Bollain, Bigas Luna and Carlos Saura. His impressive film resume includes scores to Volver and The Constant Gardener. Iglesias won the World Soundtrack Award for Soundtrack Composer of the Year and Best Original Soundtrack of the Year (Flanders International Film Festival, Ghent) and has been awarded seven Goyas, as well as the National Award of Cinematography in September 2007 at the San Sebastián Festival plus many more European accolades. He has also received nominations for both an Academy Award and BAFTA for The Constant Gardener, the only Spanish composer to achieve that status. Most recently Iglesias composed the original film score for Marc Foster´s The Kite Runner based on the best seller by Khaled Hosseini. Iglesias is currently working on Steven Soderbergh’s two films about Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro.
In addition to his work in film Alberto Iglesias is a prolific composer for the concert hall (orchestra, ensemble, and string quartet), and for ballet. In the past year he has completed his largest work to date, Assault to the Castle, an orchestral and vocal work in eight movements.
Sex and Lucia All About My Talk To Her
Mother
The Constant The Kite Runner
Gardener
The Kite Runner (2007)
Vover (2006)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Bad Education (2004)
Take My Eyes (2003)
Terror In Moscow (2003)
Comandante (2003)
Talk To Her (2002)
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Many more including All About My Mother (1999) and The Chambermaid On The Titanic (1997)