Role Composer Name Gus Reyes | Website [1] Years active 1993—present | |
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Full Name Gustavo Alberto Ramirez Reyes Parents Jesus Gustavo Ramirez Avila | ||
The dark side of light suite by gus reyes
Gus Reyes (born June 27, 1977) is a Mexican musician and composer primarily focused on film scoring.
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Reyes began his studies in music at the age of 8. His father, Jesus Gustavo Ramírez Avila, student of the great guitar players Manuel López Ramos (México 1929-2006) and Andrés Segovia (Spain, 1893-1987), was his first teacher in music. During his early years Reyes was part of several Sacred Music Choirs, all directed by Phillipe H. Tolón, who was Lead Violín at the Opera Orchestra of Bellas Artes (Mexico) at that time. He became soloist pretty fast, and gave tours for many years. Later, Reyes begin his studies in many important music institutions ending with his application to the "Cardenal Miranda Institute" in 1995, where he spent most of his youth studying music.
Great Mexican teachers had been part of his education, like Xavier Gonzalez Tezcucano (Composer, Orchestral and Choral Conductor), Luis Armando Elias Chain (Composer), Philippe H. Tolon (Lead Violinist), Juan Trigos (Composer), Jorge Torres Sáenz (Composer), Jaime Uribe (Composer and Musical analyst), Eduardo Gamboa (Composer), among others. Reyes studied majors in Composition, Orchestral and Choral Conducting and Musicology.
While studying, Reyes had the chance to start writing music for low budget films, doing almost 20 of them. Most of those films are lost in time, nevertheless he kept writing music for this type of productions almost his entire time in college.
There are now countless examples of Reyes's music in Mexican film industry like "Magnicidio" (2002), "El Ultimo Evangelio" (2008), "El Ultimo País Mágico" (2005), "El Secreto" (2010), "The Dark Side of Light" (2014), "El Entrenador" (2014), "Pink" (2015), "El Charro de Toluquilla" (2016) among many others.
Reyes also has collaborated with other composers like Andres Sanchez-Maher in "Mexican Gangster" (2014), “El Charro de Toluquilla” (Tribeca 2016), "I Dream in Another Language" (Audience Award Winner at the Sundance Film Festival 2017) and with Francisco Albisua in "El Fantástico Mundo de Juan Orol" (2012) as co-composer, music arranger, conductor and orchestrator.
Reyes and Andrés Sanchez-Maher are also best known for their orchestral arrangements for rock bands like "Zoé" in their Latin Grammy award winning MTV unplugged "Música de Fondo" (Mexico 2011) and "Dorian" in their album "Diez Años y un Día" (Spain 2015).
Nominated for the IX Jerry Goldsmith Awards for his work on the film "The Dark Side of Light" at the International Film Music Festival of Cordoba, Spain 2014, and later for the Silver Goddess Manuel Esperón Award for best music for a film at the Pecime Press Awards 2015, Reyes made his international debut with this soundtrack. Edited and distributed by Kronos Records and MovieScore Media, “The Dark Side of Light Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” was very well received by international film music critics and stands as one of the best of 2014. "The Dark Side of Light Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" is still currently available in CD format and Digital download at Kronos Records, MovieScoreMedia, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Music, iTunes, Allmusic, Napster, 7Digital, Kurrentmusic, Intrada Store and many more around the world.
http://filmmusicfestival.org/en/jerry-goldsmith/
http://www.bsospirit.com/2014/06/25/nominaciones-a-los-ix-premios-jerry-goldsmith/
Invited by Bertha Navarro (Producer of Guillermo Del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth", "Chronos" and "The Devil's Backbone"), Reyes has been part of all Mexico City's Film Music Labs since 2010 as a Film Scoring Advisor.
Reyes is currently working with Andrés Sanchez-Maher in the film “La Ira o el Seól”, directed by Juan Mora (“Erendira Ikikunari” 2016), Story-House & Netflix TV Series "El Chapo", directed by Ernesto Contreras, J.M. Cravioto, written by Silvana Aguirre & Carlos Contreras, and the Documentary Film "El Paso de la Tortuga", produced by Bertha Navarro, among other international projects.
More recently Reyes was selected for the Sundance Film Music Program 2016 that took place at the Skywalker Ranch, Nicasio, California, and is being promoted by ASCAP and the Sundance Film Festival 2017 in their renowned annual Composer Spotlight.
https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2016-skywalker-sound-film-composers-sound-design-lab
https://www.ascap.com/news-events/events/2017/sundance-2017/composers/gus-reyes
Filmography
He has composed scores for:
His composition works also include scores for the short films:
Other works:
Collaboration with Andres Sanchez-Maher, Directed by Jesus Magaña
Winner of 2 Latin Gammy Awards (Best Alternative Album & Best Rock Song of 2011), Collaboration with Andres Sanchez-Maher, Produced by Phil Vinall.
Organized by Bertha Navarro, IMCINE, IBERMedia, SGAE, Instituto Buñuel and Fundación Author Arteria México.
Collaboration with Andres Sanchez-Maher and Yanou Dozol. Produced by Phil Vinall.
Collaboration with Ivonne Guevara, Jethro Carbonell and Yanou Dozol.
Collaboration with composer Francisco Albisua. Directed by Sebastian Del Amo
Organized by Bertha Navarro. Sponsored by IMCINE, FONCA, IBERMedia, Fonoteca Nacional, Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernandez, Estudios 5 de Mayo, Adco Pro S.C., Astro LX and Laboratorio para profesionales de Cine y Creación.
Collaboration with Andres Sanchez-Maher. Produced by Phil Vinall.
Organized by Bertha Navarro. Sponsored by IMCINE, FONCA, IBERMedia, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Gobierno del Distrito Federal, Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernandez, Estudios 5 de Mayo Astro LX and Laboratorio para profesionales de Cine y Creación.
Collaboration with composers Andres Sanchez-Maher, Pablo Valero and Daniel Zlotnik.
Collaboration with composer Eduardo Gamboa.
Organized by Bertha Navarro. Sponsored by IMCINE, FONCA, IBERMedia, Cátedra Bergman UNAM, Astro LX and Laboratorio para profesionales de Cine y Creación.
Collaboration with composer Andrés Sanchez Maher.