Tomas Barriero
Tomás Barreiro is a composer and musician with more than 15 years of experience in
film, television, theater, and advertising. He has worked on over 50 feature films and
has received awards such as the Ariel. In addition, he has been recognized in concert
music, winning international prizes. He has also collaborated as a guitarist and
musical advisor in important productions, including the ballet Like Water for Chocolate
at the Royal Opera House in London and the MET in New York.
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).