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Carlos Rafael Rivera

Guatemalan-American composer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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's The Queen's Gambit and received 2 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 Godless.[11][12]

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Education

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]

Discography

Film and television soundtracks

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