Adagietto - Music

Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi Born 21 October 1955 Is A Spanish Composer. He Was First Noticed As A Score Composer For Spanish Films Mostly From Pedro Almodóvar And Julio Medem. His Career Became More International With Time And He Eventually Started To Work Also In Hollywood. Since Then He Has Been Nominated Four Times For An Academy Award For His Work In The Films The Constant Gardener 2005 The Kite Runner 2007 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 And Parallel Mothers 2021 . His Other Film Credits Include Soundtracks For Steven Soderbergh's Che. And Hossein Amini's The Two Faces Of January 2014 . He Also Has Worked For Ballet And Has Done Other Classical Music Work. Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi Was Born In 1955 In San Sebastián. His Sister Is Visual Artist Cristina Iglesias. Iglesias Was The Brother-In-Law Of The Late Spanish Sculptor Juan Muñoz. Iglesias Studied Harmony And Counterpoint At The Conservatory Of His Home City With Francisco Escudero Continuing His Education In Paris Where He Studied Composition And Piano And At Phonos Studios In Barcelona Where He Learned Electronic Music. Afterwards He Created A Duo Of Electronic Music With Javier Navarrete Who Worked And Performed Together From 1981 To 1986. He Began Working In Film Composition In The 1980s. Iglesias Has Composed A Number Of Scores For Films Directed By Pedro Almodóvar Such As The Flower Of My Secret 1995 Live Flesh 1997 All About My Mother 1999 Talk To Her 2002 Bad Education 2004 Volver 2006 Broken Embraces 2009 And The Skin I Live In 2011 . Iglesias Also Composed The Music For Sex And Lucia 2001 Directed By Julio Medem And For Oliver Stone's Documentary Comandante 2003 . Iglesias Garnered His First Oscar Nomination For His Score In Fernando Meirelles's Film Adaptation Of The Constant Gardener 2005 . Iglesias Also Composed The Score For The Kite Runner 2007 Based On Khaled Hosseini's 2003 Novel Of The Same Name. He Earned His Second Oscar Nomination For That Score. In 2008 Iglesias Composed Steven Soderbergh's 2008 Two Part Biopic Che 2008 Starring Benicio Del Toro As Che Guevara. That Same Year Iglesias Composed The Music For Tomas Alfredson's Film Adaptation Of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Starring Gary Oldman As George Smiley. Iglesias Told The Los Angeles Times " Alfredson Explained To Me Very Well What This Film Is About. It's A Film About Loyalties And Human Relationships. Their Spies Are Victims Of This Moment. That Was The Most Important Thing He Told Me. The Film And The Music Show The More Human Side." He Received His Third Oscar Nomination For The Latter Film. read less