Nico Casal es un pianista y compositor santiagués residente en Madrid. Después de acabar los estudios de piano en el Conservatorio Superior de Vigo se muda a Londres a estudiar un Máster sobre composición para cine en la City University. Durante sus años en Inglaterra trabajó para numerosos proyectos audiovisuales entre los que destacan “Stutterer”, ganador del premio Oscar a Mejor Cortometraje en 2016, y la película “La Enfermedad del Domingo”, de Ramón Salazar, la cual le valió una nominación a los Premios Feroz a mejor banda sonora.
Además de haber compuesto música para 8 películas, 6 documentales y numerosos cortometrajes, en abril de 2019 Nico lanza su primer disco “Alone”, trabajo que nace de una improvisación a piano en su habitación de Londres. El álbum salió bajo el sello PIAS/Point of Departure Records, acompañado por una gira por España y Reino Unido, incluyendo el prestigioso Southbank Centre de Londres. Además, participó en festivales como el Eurosonic (Países Bajos), Reeperbahn Festival (Alemania), BIME en Bilbao y el Festival de Jazz de San Sebastián.
Su música también se puede escuchar en campañas publicitarias como las últimas de Wimbledon, la DGT, La Liga, Estrella Galicia, British Airways, Adidas... y en 2016 recibió una nominación a los Music &Sound Awards UK por su música en la campaña internacional “The Pink Ladies” del banco HSBC.
En abril de 2019, semanas después de la publicación de su primer disco “Alone” se lesionó la mano derecha, obligándole a pasar 7 meses de recuperación y cancelar todos los conciertos posteriores, sesiones de grabación y proyectos de composición.
Ya recuperado, ha compuesto la banda sonora de la película argentina “Errante Corazón” escrita y dirigida por Leonardo Brzezicki, la serie “Maricón Perdido” creada por Bob Pop (Premio Ondas a mejor Serie de Comedia 2021) y, entre otros proyectos, la música de la campaña publicitaria de la DGT de las últimas navidades. Acaba de estrenar la serie documental “Pacto de Silencio” de RTVE y la película “Te estoy amando locamente”.
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Nico Casal is a classical trained pianist and film composer born in Galicia (Spain). He is now back, based in Madrid, following six years living in London where he moved in 2011 to study a Master in Film Music at City University. While living in London Nico composed music for many prominent films including the 2016 Oscar Winner short film “Stutterer” and Netflix´s Spanish film “Sunday´s Illness”, which earned him a Premios Feroz Nomination for his score (Spanish version of Golden Globes Awards).
In April 2019 Nico released his debut album “Alone”. It was born on a solitary Sunday in Nico´s room in London. “Alone” was a very personal account of difficult break up Nico was going through at the time and a turning point, a moment of resolution at the end of a difficult couple of years in London. The album was released with PIAS´s imprint “Point of Departure Records” followed a tour of Spain and UK, including headline show at London´s famous Southbank Centre, as well as festival appearances at Eurosonic (The Netherlands), The Reeperbahn (Germany), BIME and San Sebastian Jazz Festival (both in Spain). The lead single “Ready to talk” was premiered on BBC 6 in UK by Lauren Laverne and Radio 3 by Tomás Fernando in Spain.
Nico´s Youtube channel is home to several live performances as well as his notorious covers of artists such as James Blake, PJ Harvey and Jon Hopkins “Singularity”, which was premiered on The Quietus. In 2017, after watching Nico´s covers, Katy Perry asked him to perform live on her Youtube channel to her 35million subscribers as part of a promotion campaign of her album “Witness”. Nico´s music can also be heard in advertising campaigns around the world including Wimbledon, Adidas, British Airways, Nurofen and in 2016 Nico received a Music & Sound Award UK nomination for his work on HSBC´s Pink Ladies Campaign.
In 2019, after the release of his debut album “Alone”, what was set to be a busy festival performing period was then halted through a serious injury to Nico´s right hand. After cancelling several performances, composition projects and recording sessions what followed was an intense 7 months healing process. Now Nico is back, he has finished the soundtrack of his first TV Show “Maricón Perdido”, he composed the music for the Argentinian feature film “Errante Corazón” (“Wandering Heart”) on HBOmax at the moment.
Among other projects, he has just finished the soundtrack for “Pacto de Silencio”, a two episodes documentary for RTVE and his latest film “Te estoy amando locamente” is currently on cinemas in Spain.