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New Album!

Doorways showcases a diverse range of my composing abilities with influences stemming from my work on film scores, my background as a classical musician and my Colombian roots. Doorways is an amalgamation of elements that makeup who I am as a musician and composer. An eclectic instrumental album, it offers an enticing experience for music…

Original Soundtrack Album for “Rio Seco” is out!

The film Rio Seco, directed by Pedro Hernández, which I was delighted to compose an original score for, was released in select theaters in Colombia in July of 2019. We wanted to release the soundtrack along with the film but it was not possible at the time. Now here we are a year and half…

The Claus Family

In an uplifting end to an incredibly challenging year, Netflix released the Dutch film The Claus Family. A magical Christmas film with score by the german composer Anne-Kathrin Dern. This is the third film that I have orchestrated for Anne. It was recorded in Macedonia by the Fame’s Orchestral Music Recording, which did a fantastic…

Canto Para Que Cambie / Singing For A Change

FOSBO (Foundation Symphony Orchestra of Bogotá) is a musical organization of which I am a co-founder. We started the organization in 2008 under the leadership of maestro Zbigniew Zajac and since then, I’ve been arranging and composing music for a variety of ensembles and projects with FOSBO. This year, on November 28th, 2020 FOSBO premiered…

Orchestrating Fearless

Back in May of 2019, my friend, the talented composer Anne-Kathrin Dern, called me to join her team to work on the animated feature Fearless. She had the orchestra lined up in London to record the score at the legendary Abbey Road studio. The catch…the session was happening in less than 2 weeks, but of…

Scoring “Rio Seco”

THE BEGINNING A few years ago I received an email from Pedro Hernández asking if I would consider scoring a film he had directed. He gave me a short introduction of himself and a quick summary of the movie, then he simply said “watch the film and if you like it call me back”. I…