Personal info
Known for
Music Director
Gender
Male
Birthday
18 August
Location
Washington, United States
Edit pageCarlos Rafael Rivera
Biography
Carlos Rafael Rivera (born 18 August 1970) is an American composer based out of Guatemala. In 2014, his music score for the movie A Walk Among the Tombstones advanced to an Oscar in the Best Original Score category.
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).
He attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School for high school. He studied guitar and received a Bachelor 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.
