Biography

Dan Vallejo is a composer, conductor and orchestrator whose body of work includes music for film, television and new media.

His work with film includes "Mr. Bold" written and directed by BAFTA Newcomer Aiman Mimiko, a film that tells the story of a young boy who desecrates a Mosque in a small Nigerian town in a bid to connect with his older brother. He contributed music to "Arte y Abastos" a documentary that explores how art changes people's relationship with their culture in the biggest market of Latin America. He co-produced the main theme for the podcast "Unwrapped Sex", a bilingual podcast (English & Spanish) dedicated to the research and dissemination of information and knowledge related to sexology, delivered objectively without the wraps of taboos nor shame.

Born and raised in Mexico City, he started his musical journey at an early age playing classical guitar & piano. He got to perform in several editions of the International Cervantino Festival as well as playing violin with the Mexican Metropolitan Orchestra at TSBA. Throughout his life he studied in TSBA Arts Academy, Veerkamp Academy and was a student of composer Milo Coello. Vallejo studied Music Production & Engineering in Rec Música Centro de Estudios Musicales and has a degree in Film & Media Scoring with a minor in Writing for Television & New Media from the prestigious Berklee College of Music. After graduating he started working at Bleeding Fingers Music, Hans Zimmer's Emmy winning and BAFTA-nominated composer collective, assisting Kara Talve.
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