Roque Baños

Roque Baños
Birth name	Roque Baños López
Born	Jumilla, Murcia, Spain
Genres	Jazz, film music
Occupations	composer
Instruments	Saxophone
Website	http://www.roquebanos.es

Roque Baños (born 1968, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain) is a Spanish music composer. He received the Goya Award for Best Original Score in 2008.

1 Education
2 Professional career
3 Musical influences
4 Filmography
5 References
6 External links

Education

Baños has been involved in music his whole life, his father being a saxophonist. He began studies in the Upper Music Conservatory of Murcia where he completed a basic saxophone degree. In 1986, he moved to Madrid where he studied at the Real Conservatorio Superior (Royal Upper Music Conservatory) and continued his musical studies, obtaining a professional degrees in the saxophone, piano, harmony, counterpoint, composition, instrumentation and conducting. In 1993 he received a grant from the Ministry of Culture to study in the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he would focus his musical career on film scores and jazz.

Professional career

Although Baños initially developed his skills as a concert musician, he soon decided to focus on composition. His approach to film music is due to his education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. There, he studied music composition with David Spear and orchestral direction with Gregory Fridge, specializing in composition for film scores and jazz, winning several awards, among them the Robert Share Award for showing the highest dramatic level in the area of film score. He graduated with Summa Cum Laude in the branches of film score and jazz composition.

Back in Spain, after a brief period in the short film scene, he began to compose for the big screen thanks to actor Gabino Diego's regard. Since then he has composed many works along with fellow Spanish composer Alberto Iglesias.

In 2008, he received the Goya Award for Best Original Score for the soundtrack of Las 13 rosas.^[1]

Musical influences

His music is notable for a great jazz influence, as showed in the majority of his works and specially in El robo más grande jamás contado (Greatest Robbery ever).

Filmography

Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (Crisis Letal) (2011)
Balada triste de trompeta (2010)
7 Minutos (2009)
Rosa y negro (2009)
Celda 211 (2009)
Los Crímenes de Oxford (2008)
Diario de una ninfómana (2008)
Las 13 rosas (2007)
Alatriste (2007)
La caja Kovak (2006)
Frágiles (2005)
Rosario Tijeras (2005)
Torrente 3: el protector (2005)
Crimen Ferpecto (2004)
El séptimo día (2004)
Isi/Disi. Amor a lo bestia (2004)
La Flaqueza del Bolchevique (2003)
El maquinista (2003)
800 balas (2002)
Deseo (2002)
El otro lado de la cama (2002)
El robo más grande jamás contado (2002)
Salomé (2002)
Chica de Río (2001)
No debes estar aquí (2001)
No somos nadie (2001)
Torrente 2, misión en Marbella (2001)
La Comunidad (2000)
Lázaro de Tormes (2000)
Obra maestra 2000
Sexy beast (2000)
Tuno negro (2000)
El árbol del penitente (1999)
El corazón del guerrero (1999)
Goya en Burdeos (1999)
Segunda piel (1999)
Muertos de risa (1998)
Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998)
Una pareja perfecta (1998)
No se lo digas a nadie (1998)
Carreteras secundarias (1997)

References

^ "El músico jumillano Roque Baños gana un Goya por la banda sonora de 'Las 13 rosas'". La Verdad. 4 February 2008. http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/20080204/cultura/musico-jumillano-roque-banos-20080204.html. Retrieved 21 September 2011.

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