Carlos Rafael Rivera | |
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Birth name | Carlos Rafael Rivera |
Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
Occupations | Music composer |
Carlos Rafael Rivera (born 18 August, 1970) is an American composer based out of Guatemala. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] In 2014, his music score for the movie A Walk Among the Tombstones [9] advanced for Oscar in the Best Original Score category. [10] He has won an Emmy Award (for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special), a Grammy Award (for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media), and a Hollywood Music in Media Award (for Best Original Score in a TV Show/Limited Series) for his work in Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit (2020) and received two additional Emmy nominations (for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special and Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music) for his work in another Netflix miniseries Godless (2017). [11] [12]
He attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School for high school. He studied guitar and received a Bachelors of Music in Composition at Florida International University School of Music in Miami in 1996. He has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California. [13]
Title | Year |
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Without a Map | 1999 |
Dragonfly | 2002 |
Crash | 2005 |
Feast | 2006 |
A Walk Among the Tombstones | 2014 |
Godless | 2017 |
The Queen's Gambit | 2020 |
Just Beyond | 2021 |
Hacks | 2022 |
La Reina del Sur (season 3) | 2022 |
Chupa | 2023 |
Lessons in Chemistry | 2023 |
Griselda | 2024 |
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