Eduardo de la Iglesia
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Eduardo de la Iglesia

Madrid, Madrid, Spain | Established. Jan 01, 2000

Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Established on Jan, 2000
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"Eduardo shares his thoughts on composing and working with other musicians"

Eduardo de la Iglesia, is from Spain. He won the 15th Annual USA Songwriting Competition in the instrumental category

1. Can you describe how you compose your music/songs?

It depends on the music I'm going to compose...
If I compose a song for me, first, I select a theme to compose. Then I try to imagine some images in my mind about what kind of music represents them....and finally, I try to put music for those images...
When someone gives me images (videogames, movies, etc...). the process is different. I listen to a lot of music about the ambience of the game, or the movie and I get ideas from that music to start composing.

2. Do you collaborate with other songwriters, lyricists or composers?

Yes, actually I´m collaborating with Ariel Queupumil to arrange some of his themes, but generally I work alone

3. Who is your favorite composer? What did you learn from him?

I´ve got a lot of favorite composers, but if I must choose one of them, I choose John Williams. It´s incredible the way he describes images with his music. He´s a great composer and all his music is an inspiration for me. I´m trying to learn the way he orchestrate his themes (It´s not easy) and the way he use the orchestra to describe the different situations for a movie.

4. How did you write your winning music? Did the melody come first or the background music?

First it´s the melody, and then the orchestration, but in the winning music there are two melodies. The song calls "Gods & Mortals" and there´s a melody for the Gods (Chorale) and another melody for the mortals (Oboe).

5. Can you describe the collaboration with other writers and producers?

I´m always trying to discover new things when I´m composing music. I am constantly learning new things to incorporate into my music, so.my collaboration with other composers is based on the exchange of musical ideas.

6. Can you tell us about your music college experience? Do you take anything positive from that experience?

I started to learn music when I was 8 years old, but I was too booooored, so when I was 10 years old I left my musical studies.
When I was 18 I told my parents that I wanted to be a musician (I´ll never forget their faces...hehehe), and they said..."ok...music and another thing". So, I started studying musical school teaching but my real dream was to be a great musician. I started learning music by my own and listening a lot of music, trying to imitate the great composers with my Midi files. I started to learn viola and solfeo at the same time, but my teachers were musicians....not teachers, and they didn´t know how to teach me the things I wanted to know. So it was too hard for me to learn music and all the things I know about composition and orchestración I learned by myself. Anyway I knew a lot of people with great ideas and talent that helped me to improve

7. Have you won other song contests other than USA Songwriting Competition?

Yes, I´ve won :
- Winner on the "100% Music Songwriting Contest" on the "Soundtracks, TV, Video games" category
- Nominee for the "Hollywood Music Awards" on 2 categories: "Best New Composer" and "Best Instrumental Music"
- Nominee for the "19th Annual L.A. Music Awards"

8. I see Ariel Queupumil is from your country (Spain), he won 1st prize in the Latin category the same year you did. Have you collaborated with him? If so, how did you collaborate?

Due to the contest, Ariel called me because he was making a web page for musicians called MyHitplace...a great place to put in contact producers and musicians. He told me about the page and the possibility to upload my music. I know Ariel´s music (he´s a great composer) and we talked about making music together...He´ll compose the music and I´ll make the arrangements.

9. What advice would you give to other up-and-coming composer or songwriter out there?

Well...the first advice is Don´t give up!!! This is a slow process and you must be patient. Don´t stop making music and try to contact with everybody in the media/music industry. If you persevere, you´ll see the results of your work ;) - USA Songwriting competition


Discography

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the videogame Young Justice Legacy 

- Musical Composer of the movies videogame Kick Ass 2 

- Credited in the Spike Lee film Youre Nobody til someone kills you 

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the videogame Shiny the FireFly

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the videogame Decadence 

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the videogame Series Naraba World

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer for the App mobile game "The Moleys"

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer for the App mobile game "Mummy Madness" 

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer for the App mobile game "The Respawnables" 

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the videogame "The Pit: Dog eat Dog"

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the Iphone Game Clippox Exodus

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the Iphone Game Tap, Tap,Tap

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the MMO videogame Baobab Planet ( www.baobabplanet.com )

- Musical Composer/Lead Sound Designer of the iphone videogame The Long Silence

- Musical Composer of the Soundtrack for the videogame The Shadow of Aten

- Musical Composer of the Soundtrack for the Gaelco game PCFutbol 2007

- Musical Composer of the Short movie Perrito Chino  screened in theaters

- Musical Composer of the soundtrack for the documentary QSU?

- Musical Composer of the Soundtrack for the Short movie Simon 

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Eduardo is a Multi Award-Winning composer (born in Madrid - Spain). Since he was seven years old, he has been studying music in many important institutions such as the Conservatory of Madrid, the Arturo Soria Conservatory, Sigfredo Musical School and the Federico Chueca Music School (now he performs as Choral Director there). Besides, he holds a degree in Music Education.

With more than 13 years of experience Eduardo has been working in projects like "Young Justice legacy" (Warner/Freedom Factory Studios),  "Kick Ass 2", "The Respawnables" (Digital Legends), "Shiny the Firefly" (Stage Clear Studios),  "Clippox Exodus" (Gametopia Games), "Naraba world series" videogames,  "Commandos 2" and "Commandos 3" videogames (Pyro Studios), etc... and credited in films like the Spike Lee movie "You're nobody til somebody kills you", documentaries like "En un segundo", Spots (Amazon, Yelmo Cineplex, ISDIN, Cinegames, Iberia....), etc...

Awards:

- Winner of the "USA songwriting competition 2009" on the "Instrumental" category
- Winner on the West Coast Songwriters International Song Contest 2010 on the Intrumental category
- Winner of the "100% Music Songwriting contest 2009" in France on the "Soundtracks, TV and Videogames" category
- Winner on the 16th Annual Billboard Song Contest on the Electronica/Soundtrack category
- 2nd place on the 17th Annual Billboard Song Contest on the Electronica/Soundtrack category
- Winner of the "100% Music Songwriting contest 2010" in France on the "Soundtracks, TV and Videogames" category
- Winner on the West Coast Songwriters International Song Contest 2009 on the Intrumental category
- Winner of Instrumental division in the Esongwriter International Songwriting Competition 2010
- Nominee for the Hollywood Music Awards on 2 categories: Best New Composer and Best Instrumental Music
- Nominee for 19th Annual L.A. Music Awards
- Honorable mention on the International Songwriting Competition 2009 - Instrumental category
- Honorable Mention on the 12th Annual Unisong International Song Contest on the Instrumental Category

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