I am a composer, sound designer and guitarist born in 1990 in Montevideo, Uruguay. I am characterized by a strong interest in learning very different kinds of music, which enables me to create original music that responds to the communicative and expressive needs of each moment. My passion for artistic collaboration has led to my work being part of nine video games (including releases for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft consoles, as well as Windows, iOS and Android devices), two feature films, three audiovisual series, thirteen short films, eleven theatre plays and other media. I have received awards from Uruguay's Ministry of Education and Culture, Fulbright, the Uruguayan Choral Association, the Kino London Short Film Festival and Columbia College Chicago among others, and compositions of mine have been played in concerts, festivals and workshops in nine countries. Additional publications of my work include seventeen music albums, three books, one concert film, three software applications and ten studies, and as a performer I have given over three hundred concerts in four countries.

I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree, profile: Music Composition for the Screen, from Columbia College Chicago (United States), where my main professor was Kubilay Uner. I also hold two Bachelor’s degrees from the Universidad de la República (University of the Republic) (Uruguay): one in Music, profile: Composition (main professor: Osvaldo Budón), and another one in Musical Performance, profile: Guitar (main professors: Ramiro Agriel and Gonzalo Victoria). In addition, I have studied composition with Coriún Aharonián, Joel Goodman, Ronit Kirchman and Chance Thomas, as well as music genres like Flamenco, Tango, Jazz, Candombe and Javanese Gamelan with various teachers.

I am currently an Academic Assistant of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de la República, an instructor at the Universidad de la República and the Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay, and an instructor of courses in Music Composition for Films and Music Composition and Audio Implementation for Video Games that I teach independently. Besides, I have held teaching positions at two other universities: Columbia College Chicago and Universidad Católica del Uruguay, and have worked for composers such as Joel Corelitz, Roque Baños, Tom Howe, Ilya Levinson and Sebastian Huydts.

Last update: 11 March 2024

Dúo acústico uruguayo, integrado por Fernanda Giménez (voz y cajón peruano) y Gonzalo Varela (guitarra)

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