Carlos Rafael Rivera is a Grammy and three-time Emmy Award-winning composer whose scores bring a director's vision to life - from Netflix's The Queen's Gambit and Dept. Q to Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry and HBO Max's Hacks. A protégé of Randy Newman, he composes directly from the screenplay, treating every musical choice as a narrative one.

Alongside his work in film and television, Carlos serves as Professor and Chair of the Media Scoring and Production Department at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, mentoring the next generation of composers in the same story-first approach that defines his own scoring.