Tomás Barreiro
COMPOSER
Biography
Tomás Barreiro (b. 1976) is a composer, orchestrator, interpreter and teacher, with more than 15 years of experience in the cinematographic medium. His portfolio includes TV shows, theater, advertising, and over 20 feature films, both mexican and international productions. Some of the prizes and nominations he has received throughout his career include: Ariel and Fénix Prizes, Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival and Chicago International Film Festival, among others.
From the beginning of his career as a film composer, Barreiro has worked in relevant Mexican productions, such as: Güeros (Ariel, 2014), Museo (Berlinale, 2018) and Verde (Luminus, 2016), from director Alonso Ruizpalacios, with whom he has closely collaborated since 2008. He also scored Alejandra Márquez Abella’s Las niñas bien (Ariel, 2018) and Bruno Santamaría’s first two feature films: Margarita (FICG, 2016) and Cosas que no hacemos (CIFF, 2020). Most recently, Barreiro has expanded his career to Latin America and the United States, with productions like Bad Hombres (United States, 2020) a documentary directed by Andrew Glazer, Jezabel (Venezuela,2021) by Hernán Jabes, “El norte sobre el vacío” by Alejandra Márquez (Berlinale,2022) and “La Cocina” by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Berlinale, 2024).
“…Barreiro made particularly beautiful use of them, using techniques that are found in electric guitar and classical guitar, and the beautiful ending on harmonics that almost sounds like Japanese music was no accident. Mr Barreiro has a very fine ear. ”
