Composer, researcher, teacher, and artistic director of projects. With a Higher Degree in Music from UNIR, a Master’s Degree in Composition for Audiovisual Media from the Katarina Gurska Higher Centre, a Specialist in Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music, and a Piano Teacher from the Gijón Conservatory of Music and Dance, Ana Vázquez has trained in vocal technique and singing interpretation with Elena Durgaryan, and in composition and orchestration with her mentors, the masters Antón García Abril and David del Puerto.
She has received commissions from institutions such as the Albéniz Foundation and the National Orchestra of Spain, and her music has been heard in venues such as the National Auditorium, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Teatros del Canal, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Juan March Foundation, Nino Díaz Foundation, Palacio de Comunicaciones, Niemeyer Centre, Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, and Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels, among others.
Her creative activity leads her to artistic and musical direction, producing the musical-scenic projects, «La vida rosa», «La Casa de Tala», «Añadas, canciones para soñar despierto» and «María La Balteira, una mujer del futuro», works in which multidisciplinarity and co-creation are promoted.
Her music has been recorded on different albums and she is a novus artist of the record label Novus promúsica. In the field of research, her latest work focuses on the analysis and recovery of the work of the composer María Rodrigo. Another of her lines of study is the development of analysis methodologies for audiovisual musical language.
She has participated in talks and discussion panels on legal and contractual issues in composing music for film, music and cultural transversality, musical auditory perception, and film music analysis.
She is a professor in the MCAV Master’s Degree at the Katarina Gurska Higher Centre and in the Higher Degree in Composition at the Música Creativa Higher Centre, as well as Pedagogical Coordinator of the Degree. She has also participated as a teacher within the Erasmus+ programme at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is currently Professor of Analysis and Musical Forms at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid and president of Musimagen, the national association that brings together composers of music for audiovisual media in Spain.