Musical Biography
Diego Navarro, born in Tenerife in 1972, is an awarded film music composer and conductor, currently considered one of the most relevant voices in film music in Spain. He premiered his first work in public at the age of 13 and conducted his first orchestra concert at the age of 21.
His filmography includes successful titles such as “Capture the Flag” (Enrique Gato), winner of a Goya and multiple other awards, “The Photographer of Mauthausen” (Mar Targarona), the NETFLIX original “The Wasteland” (David Casademunt), or the also awarded thriller “The Cucko ́s Curse”, to name a few.
He has received national and international nominations and awards such as Best Music, for his score for the thriller “The Cucko ́s Curse”, at the 24th edition of the Costa del Sol International Fantastic Film Festival, the nomination for the prestigious “World Soundtrack Awards” (World Film Music Awards) awarded by the Ghent Film Festival for drama “Passage to Dawn” (Andreu Castro), or the double nomination for the IFMCA AWARDS (International Association of Film Music Critic Awards) for “Capture the Flag”. “The Photographer of Mauthausen” obtained two nominations for best orchestral score at the 11th Gaudí Awards and the 2nd Spanish Audiovisual Music Awards, respectively.
His most recent works have received great reviews from the specialized media. “Two” (Mar Targarona) and NETFLIX original “The Wasteland” (David Casademunt) were in the Worldwide Top 5 the streaming platform in January 2022. “The Wasteland” became the most viewed non-English speaking film in the world on NETFLIX during the second week of January.
Two animation movies, both international co-productions are premiered in December 2024: Super Klaus and Mariposas Negras (Black Butterflies), achieving great reviews and acknowledgments in many festivals. Mariposas Negras has been awarded with the 30 Forqué Awards in the category of best animation feature, and both movies have been nominated to the 39 GOYA Awards (Spanish Oscars), also in the same category.
In 2025 Navarro will be working in several feature film projects that will be announced soon. In animation, among others, one of the absolute highlights will be another animated feature film: “Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope” (Elio Quiroga and Beñat Beitia), an international co-production (Spain – Chile – Argentina) describes the epic tale of the French ship the poet Pablo Neruda chartered to help 2.500 Spanish in their escape from the civil war towards Chile.
His soundtracks and conducting performances have been released by prestigious Hollywood film music record label Varèse Sarabande, Quartet Records and MovieScore Media, among others. In his role as a conductor, maestro Navarro has conducted a great number of world class orchestras, as well as countless important and historical film music concerts. He has had the pleasure of working with great masters of the genre such as Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, Elliot Goldenthal, etc. Likewise, he has an extensive cinematographic repertoire conducting all the classic masters of the genre and enjoys the recognition and validation from international audiences and critics.
Navarro is the founder and director of FIMUCITÉ, the Tenerife International Film Music Festival (www.fimucite.com), born in 2007. The event has become a landmark in the world of film music and is, nowadays, the oldest festival in its genre. Maestro Navarro has established himself as one of the main promoters of music written for the screen on the international scene, becoming one of the most renowned conductors in the field of music for film.
Diego Navarro is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, Musimagen, SGAE, World Soundtrack Awards Academy, the European Film Academy (EFA). In July 2024, he was invited to become a new member of the AMPAS (American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences) renowned for their annual awards: the Oscars.