Profiles: Mateo Ojeda | Proimágenes Colombia

Mateo Ojeda holds a bachelor's degree in music theory and composition from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (UNAB) in Colombia and a Kontakt Studium diploma in new composition techniques from Hochschule für Musik und Hamburg Theater and the European Live Electronics Center (EULEC) in Lüneburg, Germany. He has composed concert music pieces as well as music for film, television, and advertising since 2003. Ojeda has written music for more than twenty short films and two documentary feature films for which he has received several composition awards in Colombia and Germany, including Once colores sordos (2003), El mundo de Verona (2006) Galán (2013), Pantaleón (2015), Agua:Cero (2015), Infierno o Paraíso (2014), and Once (2018). He is currently co-founder and composer at RED Sounddesign & Filmmusik and a part-time music teacher at Junge Musikakademie and Happy Music School in Hamburg, Germany. For his word on the short film Pantaleón he received the Raben Music Award delivered during the 16th SoundTrack Cologne in Germany.