Zacarías M. de la Riva studied at the Berklee College of Music (Boston) where he accomplished a double major in Composition and Film Scoring (1997).  Back in Spain, he began his career with novel directors and composed his first scores for different short films, and his first feature film Jaizkibel (by Ibon Cormenzana). In 2000, he moved to Madrid and started his collaborations in the industry with Juan Bardem, Álex Martínez and Roque Baños. He worked as orchestrator in films such as The Machinist, Al sur de Granada, 800 Bullets, Mortadelo & Filemón, The Big Adventure. In 2003, he began to compose his first scores such as El Cid, The Legend. He met Enrique Gato and Nicolás Matji, the Tadeo Jones team, and began the composition for the first short film of the saga, winning not only the Goya Award, but also 2 awards for best music (Dos Hermanas Film Festival and Malaga Film Festival).

The following two years, he continued with the orchestrations  (Romasanta the werewolf hunt, Heroina, Di Que Sí, Melissa P), but also with composition works such as The Nun and Beneath Still Waters.  In 2005, he met Mateo Gil (writer and collaborator of Alejandro Amenábar in films such as The Sea Inside, Open Your Eyes and Tesis) and composed the film score to his movie Spectre, within the project ‘Films to keep you awake’. In 2006, he worked for Elías Querejeta and composed the music for his Spanish Civil War Film, Noticias de una guerra (directed by Eterio Ortega). After that, he composed the music for the short film Coming to Town (Carles Torrens) winning the ‘Fotogramas Award 2007’ and being finalist in the HBO Comedy Film Festival in Aspen (USA).

In 2007, he composed the score to The Last of the Just (directed by novel director Manuel Carballo) and the second short episode of the Tade Jones’ saga (Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom), winning a second Goya Award and the Alcalá de Henares International Film Festival (ALCINE) Award for best music. During the year 2007 he met Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr and started the composition for his movie The Anarquist's Wife, a romantic-drama with the Spanish civil war as background.

In 2008 he composed the music for Brazilian Road Movie, Carmo, directed by Murilo Pasta and for Imago Mortis, a thriller produced by the Italian Pixstar and the Spanish Telecinco Cinema.

In 2009, his latest work is the score to thriller Hierro, directed by Gabe Ibáñez and produced by Madrugada Films and Telecinco Cinema. The film just premiered in Cannes Critic’s Week. He is now working on a documentary directed and produced by Elías Querejeta.

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