Diego Las Heras is a Canadian/Chilean composer, music producer, and mixing engineer based in New York City.
He holds a B.A. in Jazz Studies (Humber College, Canada) & a M.M. in Music Technology (New York University, USA). Las Heras’ music has been performed by various artists and ensembles including the Chilean Youth Symphonic Orchestra. As a music producer, he has worked on projects for artists Grammy Winner Alex Cuba, Calypso Legend David Rudder, Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila, Latin Grammy Nominee Mamma Soul and Canadian National Jazz Award Winner Eliana Cuevas.
Diego has composed original music for a number of award winner feature films and documentaries as well as video games and TV shows for companies such as Warner Brothers Game, E! Entertainment Television and Discovery Channel to name a few.
In 2006, Las Heras won the honorable Luis Advis Composition Award presented by the government of Chile and he is a Toronto Arts Council winner in the category of Music Creators and Composers.
As a sound artist and electronic music performer Diego has been invited to participate in several art venues and galleries including the Artist Space (ISP/Whitney Museum), Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen (Hannover, Germany), Region(es): SUD Festival (NYC), Flux Factory (NYC), Synesthesia (NYC), Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Archives of Chile.