Roque Baños

Roque Baños López is a Spanish music composer. Baños graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1995 and has since scored both Spanish and English-language films. He has received numerous awards for his compositional work, including the Spanish Goya Award for Best Original Score in both 2008 and 2009.

Early life and education Born in Jumilla, Baños has been involved in music his whole life, his father being a saxophonist, and he himself completed a basic saxophone degree at the Upper Music Conservatory of Murcia. In 1986, Baños moved to Madrid where he attended the Real Conservatorio Superior and continued his musical studies, obtaining professional degrees in the saxophone, piano, harmony, counterpoint, composition, instrumentation and conducting. In 1993 he received a grant from the Ministry of Culture to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and it was as a student at Berklee that he would develop his aspirations to compose film scores and jazz.

He scored an English-language major studio film for the first time with the 2013 horror film Evil Dead.

Musical influences

His music is notable for a great jazz influence, as showed in the majority of his works and especially in El robo más grande jamás contado (The Biggest Robbery Never Told).

Filmography English language

Year Title Director(s) Notes 2000 Sexy Beast Jonathan Glazer 2004 The Machinist Brad Anderson 2008 The Oxford Murders Álex de la Iglesia 2013 Evil Dead Fede Álvarez IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror Film Nominated — IFMCA Award for Film Score of the YearNominated — Fright Meter Award for Best Score Oldboy Spike Lee2015 Regression Alejandro Amenábar In the Heart of the Sea Ron Howard2016 Risen Kevin Reynolds Don't Breathe Fede Álvarez2018 The Commuter Jaume Collet-Serra The Miracle Season Sean McNamara The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Terry Gilliam Nominated — Goya Award for Best Original Song The Girl in the Spider's Web Fede Álvarez 2020 Come Play Jacob ChaseHis HouseRemi Weekes 2021 Don't Breathe 2 Rodo Sayagues 2022 Umma Iris K. Shim 2024 The Killer's Game J. J. Perry 2025 Bone Lake Mercedes Bryce Morgan Afterburn J. J. Perry

Spanish language Carreteras secundarias (1997) No se lo digas a nadie (1998) Una pareja perfecta (1998) Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998) Muertos de risa (1998) Segunda piel (1999) Goya en Burdeos (1999) El corazón del guerrero (1999) El árbol del penitente (1999) Tuno negro (2000) Obra maestra (2000) Lázaro de Tormes (2000) La Comunidad (2000) Torrente 2, misión en Marbella (2001) No somos nadie (2001) No debes estar aquí (2001) Chica de Río (2001) Salomé (2002) El robo más grande jamás contado (2002) El otro lado de la cama (2002) Deseo (2002) 800 balas (2002) El maquinista (2003) La Flaqueza del Bolchevique (2003) Isi/Disi. Amor a lo bestia (2004) El séptimo día (2004) Crimen Ferpecto (2004) Torrente 3: El protector (2005) Rosario Tijeras (2005) Frágiles (2005) La caja Kovak (2006) Alatriste (2006) Las 13 rosas (2007) Diario de una ninfómana (2008) Celda 211 (2009) Rosa y negro (2009) 7 Minutos (2009) Balada triste de trompeta (2010) Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (2011) Ocho apellidos catalanes (2015) Padre no hay más que uno (2019) Adú (2020)