Iván Valdés is a musician, producer and composer from Madrid with extensive experience in the use of technologies for musical composition and sound design through the use of guitar effects.
He studied classical guitar under the direction of Demetrio Ballesteros, and he has undertaken several instrument improvement and composition courses such as Summer Session at the GIT (Los Angeles), international guitar courses in Nice, Santander, Málaga, Stick in Milan with Tony Levin, Jim Lampi and Bob Culbertson.
He is studying an online Masters in Music Composition for Film and TV at Berklee College of Music and courses in Music composition for videogames and Music Composition for Film at the SGAE. He studied Composition and Contemporary Orchestration with the Spanish composer Jesús Torres. As a performer, he has played with artists like Najwa Nimri, Marta Sánchez, Merche Corisco, Yoio Cuesta, Pablo Abraira, Nacho Campillo and Primital and also led his personal project, Monkfish, as a singer and guitarist. As a composer, he has worked producing advertising music for clients such as Ford, Hewlett Packard, State Roads, the Ministry of Defence, the Community of Madrid, AENA and Caja Madrid, Beefeater, and The Coca Cola Company, among others.
He composed the soundtrack for the films 10.000 noches en ninguna parte (10,000 Nights Nowhere), Cuento de Verano (A Summer's Tale) or Con quién viajas (With whom you travel) and the documentaries Amor en los tiempos de cólera (Love in the Time of Cholera), Velingara and Planet Asperger. He also worked for Scorekeepers in Los Angeles, producing sheet music for its Custom Cues and Prime Time music spaces.
He is currently composing music for the Nadal Academy documentary and doing arrangements for a string quartet on the upcoming album project by Alejandro Pelayo (Marlango), alongside soloists of the National Orchestra.