About

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

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His work with film includes Maria Paula Izaguirre’s “Infinitas” and “Mr. Bold” written and directed by BAFTA Newcomer Aiman Mimiko. 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 also 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. His work has been screened at international film festivals including the New York African Film Festival, Columbia University Film Festival (both Los Angeles and New York editions),the Africa International Film Festival in Nigeria, the Berlin-based collective SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and at the largest film studios in Mexico, Estudios Churubusco.

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 Emmy-nominated composer Kara Talve (The Simpsons, Prehistoric Planet, Faraway Downs). While working in Kara Talve’s team, Dan has been overseeing the technical operations of the studio as a technical score engineer, assisting in productions such as “The Simpsons”, Hallmark’s “Where Are You Christmas” and “My Norwegian Holiday” and Peacock’s upcoming series “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”.

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Besides music and film Dan is passionate about astrophysics and he aspires to score a movie about space. He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA where he enjoys visiting the Science Center and the Samuel Oschin Planetarium.