Nelson was born in Quito on June 10th, 1967.
He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
Currently, he is a professor at the School of Music of San Francisco University (Quito, Ecuador) and also works as a free-lancer composer and producer of incidental music for film, theater, contemporary dance and multidisciplinary projects.
He was a lecturer at TEDxQuito 2013 ("The Effect of Incidental Music").
Nelson is the author of many compositions for records, plays, choreography, live music, urban art forms, electronic music, commercial jingles and educational projects.
These are some of the movies and documentaries for which Nelson has composed the original soundtrack:
- El Conejo Velasco (Pocho Álvarez), largometraje documental, 2013.
- Distante Cercanía (Alex Schlenker), largometraje, 2013.
- Premio a la Mejor Música Incidental, 4to Festival Nacional Kunturñawi.
- Descubriendo a Alfaro (Karina Vivanco), serie de televisión, 2012.
- En el Nombre de la Hija (Tania Hermida), largometraje, 2011.
- Pieldolor (Pocho Álvarez), largometraje documental, 2011.
- Exquisite Corpse (ADN Digital), mediometraje, estreno en Praga, 2010.
- Zuquillo Express, (Carl West) largometraje, 2010.
- Jorgenrique (Pocho Álvarez), largometraje documental, 2010.
- Mejor que antes (Andrés Barriga) largometraje, 2009.
- A Cielo Abierto: Derechos Minados (Pocho Álvarez), largometraje, 2009.
- La Tierra del Sol Recto, Cap. 1 (Jorge Oquendo), animación, 2008.
- Chigualeros (Alex Schlenker), largometraje, 2008.
- A Pesar de todo (Rodrigo Haro), cortometraje, 2007.
- Reversa Ecuador (Jorge Oquendo), documental, 2007.
- Sé que vienen a matarme (Carl West) largometraje, 2007.
- Ellas (Alvaro Muriel), documental, 2007.
- Qué tan lejos (Tania Hermida), largometraje, 2006.
- Fuera de Juego (Victor Arregui), largometraje, 2002.
- De cuando la muerte nos visitó (Yanara Guayasamín), largometraje, 2002.
- TEST (Pablo Mogrovejo), cortometraje, 2000.
- Clown Down (ADN Digital), cortometraje, 2000.
- The River (Enrique Chediak), largometraje Ecuador/EEUU, 1997.
- Trafino (Galo Khalifé), documental, 1996.
- Galápagos, an almost lost Paradise, (Renato Ortega), documental, 1992.
Nelson is also the composer of all ident-bumpers for German Deutsche Welle International Network between 1995 and 1996.
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