Biography

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I showed a great passion for music when I was a child and started composing music very early on. So a few years later, in 1989, I began to compose music for some groups of the Commodore Amiga demo scene. That was a great stage of my life, during that period I won several music contests and learnt a lot about making music for a specific project, working with other people, and to get the job done in a hurry due to deadlines.

In 1996 I completed my first video game work, composing music for the video game Cyber Police (Balance Group/Dinamic Multimedia). And two years later I received an offer from Pyro Studios to compose the music of the multi-million seller Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty. I thought that opportunity was too good to be true and without hesitation I moved to Madrid to join Pyro Studios. After Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, I started working on Commandos 2 where I worked not just making the music and sounds for the game but also leading the production department.

Once Commandos 2 was released, Pyro Studios grew to the point of having three AAA games in development at the same time and I led the audio department of the studio in addition to composing the music for the projects.

Some years later, in 2011 I left Pyro Studios to work as a freelance music composer and sound designer for video games, trailers and media. I have been always very interested in trailer music, so I got in contact with Immediate Music, one of the pioneering trailer music companies, and was presented with the opportunity to start composing music for them, meeting amazing people there and landing some nice sync placements on trailers for Maleficent, The BFG, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Call of Duty MW3, among others. I was also lucky to get invited to work for other trailer music companies like Really Slow Motion or Chroma Music soon after.

In 2022 I got an offer to join Saber Interactive as a music composer where I'm currently working at.

Pictures

This is a small photo selection from events & recordings

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INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL. CIUDAD DE UBEDA

From left to right: Mateo Pascual, John Ottman (Superman Returns, X-Men 2), John Frizzel (Alien Resurrection), Bruno Coulais (Coraline, Les Choristes), John Debney (The Passion), Lisbeth Scott (vocalist: Narnia, Transformers) & Basil Poledouris (Conan)

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COMMANDOS STRIKE FORCE PRESS PRESENTATION

Live Orchestra performance for Commandos Strike Force presentation

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SONCINEMAD FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL

From left to right: Mateo Pascual, Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future), Roque Baños (The Machinist, Alatriste), Shigeru Umebayashi (House of Flying Daggers) & Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans, Dark City)

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BRATISLAVA SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA

Recording for Commandos Strike Force

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VG7 VIDEO GAMES CONFERENCE

From left to right: Miriam Villen Rodriguez, Mateo Pascual, Bill Roper (Warcraft), Yeray Rodríguez, Jose Manuel Garcia Franco (Commandos) & Ismael Raya Roa (Commandos)

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VOICES FROM THE JERONIMOS CHOIR

Recording for Praetorians