Diego Jiménez Tamame (Zamora, Spain, 1990) had his first contact with composition when he started attending to Harmony, Counterpoint and Composition lessons with teacher Enrique Blanco Rodríguez at Professional Music Conservatory “Tahonas Viejas” of Salamanca, Spain. He was also finishing his professional Viola studies with teacher Juan Mesana Graffe at the same conservatory. Nevertheless, he mainly focused his interests in composition.
In 2011, he began his First Degree in Composition at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Aragón (CSMA), in Zaragoza, Spain, with Jesús Rueda, Agustí Charles Soler and Eneko Vadillo as main Composition teachers, and also with teachers like Juan José Eslava Cabanellas, José Manuel López López, Arnau Bataller, Miquel Rodrigo or Josep Sanz i Quintana.
He is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Composition, and also a Master's Degree and Composition and Music Theater at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz, with Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter and Franck Bedrossian as main Composition teachers.
His music has been performed in countries like Spain, Israel, Canada, USA, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Austria or France by musicians and groups such as Academy for the New Music CSMA (Spain), Meitar Ensemble (Israel), PluralEnsemble (Spain), Trio de Magia (Spain), Ensemble Interface (Germany), the Students of the Carl Maria Von Weber Hochschule für Musik Dresden (Germany), Ensemble Multilatérale (France), Quatuor Tana (France), Barcelona Modern Project (Spain), Ensemble BCN216 (Spain), Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik (Germany), Ensemble neoN (Norway), PPCM Ensemble from the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz (Austria), Ensemble Schallfeld (Austria) or the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (France).