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 for
Oscar
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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
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(for
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media), and a
Hollywood Music in Media Award
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(for
Best Original Score in a TV Show/Limited Series) for his work in
Netflix
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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).
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.
Discography
Film soundtracks
References
External links
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21st-century American composers
1970 births
Living people
USC Thornton School of Music alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Grammy Award winners
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Primetime Emmy Award winners