Gonzalo Varela - Resume – Last update: 24 July 2019
GONZALO VARELA
Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Producer, Performer and Teacher
CONTACT
+1 (312) 358-9295
gonzalo@gonzalovarela.com
www.gonzalovarela.com
Chicago, IL, USA
PROFILE
Passionate Uruguayan artist
with expertise in making
Music in a wide variety of
styles, as well as doing Sound
Design, Audio Programming
and Video Game Audio
Implementation.
EDUCATION
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
MUSIC COMPOSITION
FOR THE SCREEN
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
In progress
BACHELOR OF MUSIC
COMPOSITION
Universidad de la República
Montevideo, Uruguay
2016
TOOLS
DAWs: Reaper, Logic
Game Audio: Unity, Wwise,
FMOD
Programming: Pure Data,
Max, Kontakt
Notation: Sibelius
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English, Portuguese
This Resume includes only a selection of my experience. More information is included in my Curriculum Vitae.
WORK IN AUDIOVISUAL AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Videogames:
 2017: Fight’n Rage (Seba Games Dev, Windows -Steam and Gog-)
 2014: Skate Bird (Iteration Mobile S.L, iOS and Android)
Short Films:
 2018: Por amor (independent)
 2014: Flauta Mágica nº 1274 (independent)
Television Shows:
 2019: Ventanas (Degree in Communication Sciences of the Universidad de la República)
Theatre Plays:
 2018: Lorca en las trincheras de Madrid (El Galpón)
 2017: Habbuk (Animalismo)
 2017: Hechos consumados (El Galpón)
 2016: Elixir (Animalismo)
 2016: Bang Bang You’re Dead (El Galpón)
 2015: El ala quebradiza de la mariposa (El Galpón)
 2014: Los Comensales (independent - Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art)
OTHER MUSIC EXPERIENCE
Compositions: Composer of works played in concerts, festivals and workshops in eleven countries,
with instrumentations ranging from a solo instrument to a Symphony Orchestra
Performances: Performed as a soloist and as part of diverse ensembles giving over 300 concerts in
four countries, playing Guitar, Bass Guitar, various Javanese Gamelan instruments, Theremin and
Singing
Publications: Publications of my work include seven Music Albums, three Books and one Video DVD
TEACHING POSITIONS
Graduate Assistant, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (2018-Present)
Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017-2019)
Teacher of Elective Courses, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017)
Student Teaching Assistant, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (2016-2017)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2017-Present: All-time best selling Uruguayan music album on Bandcamp, for the album
“Fight’n Rage Original Soundtrack”
2017: Second Prize in the PC/Web/Console category, 12º National Video Game Contest (of
Uruguay), with Seba Games Dev, for the video game “Fight’n Rage”
2017: Scholarship of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program (of the Fulbright Commission in
Uruguay and the National Agency for Research and Innovation, of Uruguay) to study a Master in Music
in the United States
2015: Second Prize in the Murga category, National Music Awards 2015 (of the Ministry of
Education and Culture, of Uruguay), for the composition “Amanecer”
2015: First Prize in the Choral Arrangement category, 3rd Biennial of Choral Composition and
Arrangement (of the Uruguayan Choral Association), for the arrangement of “Los que iban cantando”
2015: Second Prize in the “Revistas” category, Carnival Inaugural Parade Contest (of Associated
Directors of Carnavalesque and Popular Shows of Uruguay), with Krisis