Renán Zelada Cisneros (he/him)
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Music composer, human being, your fellow traveler on this rock floating in the emptiness of space. I was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a family whose fate was to travel the world. Since then, mind and flesh traveled to different destinations, like Paris, Panama, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Łódź (where I learned to think about music with the kind and generous Zygmunt Krauze), Den Haag (where I continued learning at the Royal Conservatoire), Amsterdam (where I met some of the dearest friends I have, and became a Master composer if you can believe it), and Barcelona (the city I currently call home, best place on this little continent).
As a composer, I’ve worked with ensembles and soloists, but my main area of work is music for all sorts of audiovisual projects. I have also worked on theater productions, something I greately enjoyed.
My latest showreel
film music showreel by Renán ZeladaA complete list of my works
Film scores
2025: I Had a Dream You Were Killing Me (Gabriele Mencarone, Italy) Instagram
2025: Wainitai (Pablo García-Vizcarra, Peru) Instagram
2024: Beelden uit Tuvalu (Dylan Werkman, Netherlands) IMDB
2022: DAVAI (Lola Mooij) IMDB
2022: 6 a.m. (Thom Lunshof, Netherlands) IMDB
2022: Waves of Burlesque (Colina van Bemmel, Netherlands) IMDB
2021: Science Around Us (Arif Abdillah, Indonesia/Netherlands). IMDB
2020: OTAKU (Tara Kaboli, Khashayar Yousefzadeh, Iran/Italy). IMDB
2020: Nicki (Saman Haghighivand, Iran). IMDB
2020: Harmonia (Thom Lunshof, Netherlands). IMDB
2020: A View From Above (Dylan Werkman, Netherlands). IMDB
Electronic, experimental
2026: please tell me you’re ok. Fixed media, binaural/3rd order ambisonics. Broadcast by Dundee Radio. link
2025: 14:13:12. Fixed media, 7th order ambisonics. Collaboration with Elois Zelada. Shown at the 2nd Spaceout International Ambisonics Festival at the University of Michigan, 2025 and at the University of Georgia New Music Festival 2026.
2024: frecuencia de red – utility frequency – for choir and combined cycle thermoelectric power plant. Fixed media, 3rd order ambisonics. Shown at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2026. link
2024: no recuerdo las montañas. Fixed media, stereo. Broadcast by Radio Lumen (Puerto Natales, Chile), and Radiophrenia (Glasgow, Scotland). link
2024: y siguió escribiendo en la arena. Fixed media, audiovisual. Saman Haghighivand (visuals), Mustafa Kur (voice), Alistair Sung (cello). link
Instrumental works
2024: Mar de Weddell (Sea of Weddell), for piano and percussion. 11’30’. Commissioned by Ensemble Multilatérale.
2023: Droom maar, for SATB choir a capella. 5’. Based on a poem in Dutch by Daantje Idelenburg.
2023: CHTO, for viola, soprano, and electronics. 7’. Based on a selection of poems by Nastya Denisova. Financed by the Dutch Ministry of Culture, Science, and Education through Buma/Stemra.
2022: Sappho 34, for soprano and piano. 3’. Based on a fragment by Sappho.
2021: how to decipher a dream, for carillon. 60’. Financed by the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts.
2019: Souzu, for piano. 8’.
Theater and other incidental music
2025: amors sense casa. Musical performance with poems from the antology by Sebastià Portell.
2021: Een klein leed (dir. Stijn Dijkema, Netherlands). Music theater.
2020: Bokser (dir. Celine Hoex, Netherlands). Music theater.
2019: The Art of Walking (dir. Tim Hammer, Netherlands). Experimental performance.
If you like the work I do, please do contact me and maybe we can make something nice together. You can also reach me via whatsapp at +34640872674.
I also offer private lessons in composition if that’s something you’re interested in. Through the years, I’ve combined my musical career with helping others develop their creativity and feel confident in the work they do.
Just hit me up and we can set up a lesson in person (if you’re fortunate enough to live in Barcelona) or online (wherever you are in the world).