Sebastian Escofet was born in La Plata, Argentina in 1968. At the age of 5, after long listening sessions in his grandfather Luciano's study, he knew music was his calling. At the age of 12 he decided to buy his first electric guitar, inspired by a poster of Pappo that decorated a schoolmate's bedroom.

Poor grades forced him to be a self-taught composer up until 18, when he managed to start studying with certain formality & uncertain success. Along the path of musical learning & experimentation he has collaborated with artists like Chango Spasiuk

Chango Spasiuk

Horacio "Chango" Spasiuk is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player.Of Ukrainian grandparents, El Chango had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern European musical influences were also already present in the chamamé music of the region...

, Gustavo Cerati

Gustavo Cerati

Gustavo Adrián Cerati Clark is an Argentine rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He was the frontman, lead vocalist, lead guitarist and lead songwriter of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, one of the most influential bands of latin rock music. In the early 90s, with...

, Los Estelares, Fabiana Cantilo, Ulises Butron, Jorge Drexler

Jorge Drexler

Jorge Drexler is an Uruguayan musician and actor.In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award...

, Los 7 Delfines, Philip Glass

Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

, Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola, and Joan...

, Ezequiel Borra & Mussa Phelps, to name a few.
Restlessness & curiosity have led him to explore complementary musical languages such as composition for cinema, theatre, TV, commercials & experimental performances, to embrace the world of song, to surrender himself to rock, to dive into the seas of ambient abstraction & to fly over neo classic-contemporary fields.
He composed the soundtrack for over 15 movies which participated in the most important film festivals in the world. He collaborated with Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Santaolalla

Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...

 in 21 Grams

21 Grams

21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro....

 & Biutiful

Biutiful

Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is González Iñárritu's first feature since Babel and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros...

, films directed by Alejandro González Iñarritu. He's performed live at festivals like Sonar, Netmage, Barcelona Forum & Multiplicidade.
He travels the world with his guitar, he collects instruments from each of the places he visits & he counts the days remaining before he can return to the ski tracks.

Discography

2009 Núcleos
2009 Horizontal / Vertical (soundtrack)
2008 Lluvia (soundtrack)
2008 Cordero de Dios (soundtrack)
2008 Las Vidas Posibles (soundtrack)
2009 El ultimo verano de la boyita (soundtrack)
2008 Siberiana
2008 El tunel del Juego
2006 Pura Sangre (soundtrack)
2006 Diversión
2005 Suite Patagónica
2004 Próxima Salida (soundtrack)
2004 Juego Divino
2003 Ahora
2000 Meditaciones

External links

*Sebastian Escofet web