Cristobal Tapia de Veer

Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Born Santiago de Chile
Genres Film scores, Electronic, Classical, Pop
Occupation(s) Composer
Website freerunartists.com

Juan Cristobal Tapia de Veer, also known as Cristo, is a Chilean-born Canadian film and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, Canada. He is mostly known for his music to the British TV series Utopia, for which he won an RTS Craft & Design Award in the best original score category in 2013.

Early life

Cristo was born during the military coup d'état in Chile. First, his parents fled to Paris, France. While his father decided to stay there, his mother took him back to Chile. Life under Pinochet's dictatorship still proved impossible, so they found political refuge in Québec.[1]

Career

He obtained a master's degree in classical music (specializing in percussion) from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. In 2001 he signed to Warner Music with his pop-band One Ton, putting a hold on his classical career. The trio won the Canadian Dance Music Award (SOCAN) in 2003 with the electro-dance single "Supersex World".[2] Cristo produced the album.[3]

Movie and TV scoring

In 2011, his music for the Victorian four-part drama The Crimson Petal and the White (directed by Marc Munden, BBC2) was well received by critics. Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe, said: "The soundtrack ranges from gnawing electronic hums to choral ecstasy. It's all brilliantly, effectively, appropriately jarring, even if it sends the Masterpiece crowd to the medicine cabinet for Dramamine."[4]

He went on to compose the music for the Channel 4 conspiracy thriller Utopia (created by Dennis Kelly), for which he won a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award for "best original music" in November 2013.[5] "Startlingly original scoring of hyper-reality, and unlike anything we’ve heard before. The winner’s work blurred the lines between sound design and score, creating a soundtrack that the jury said felt like it was being played inside your head."[6] Up again for a RTS Award in 2014, the music for the second series won the Music & Sound Award in 2015 in the best Original TV score category.[7]

His work on Utopia was also nominated for Televisual Magazine's Bulldog Award for best music.[8]

In early 2014, he completed the music for the TV-show Série noire (by the writers of Les Invincibles), which airs on ICI-Radio-Canada Télé.[9] The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television awarded him with 2 Prix Gémeaux for best Original Music and Best Musical Theme the same year.[10] And also finished the works on BBC's Jamaica Inn, directed by Phillipa Lowthorpe (BAFTA award-winner for Call the Midwife).[11]

His latest score can be heard on AMC's / C4's co-production Humans, among its cast are William Hurt, Gemma Chan, Colin Morgan, Katherine Parkinson and Neil Maskell. Humans became Channel 4's biggest drama hit in 20 years (with a consolidated audience of 6.1 mio viewers for its opening episode). A second season has already been confirmed.[12]

References

  1. ↑ short bio of Productions Multi-Monde, 2009, http://pmm.qc.ca/eldorado/en/team.php
  2. ↑ Chartattack http://www.chartattack.com/news/2003/11/25/sam-roberts-tom-cochrane-avril-lavigne-shine-at-socan-awards/
  3. ↑ biography of Free Run Artists Agency, 2013, http://www.freerunartists.com/artists.html
  4. ↑ Matthew Gilbert, The Boston Globe, 09.09.2012, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/2012/09/09/the-crimson-petal-and-the-white-revisiting-victorian-times-with-rated-twist/AvdrcuWBUG0bVlAJPdTVsL/story.html
  5. ↑ RTS Craft & Design Awards nomination list http://www.rts.org.uk/rts-craft-design-awards
  6. ↑ RTS Craft & Design Awards announces winners http://www.rts.org.uk/rts-announces-winners-craft-design-awards-20122013
  7. ↑ Music & Sound Awards 2015 announces winners http://www.masawards.com/uk/winners.php
  8. ↑ Kudos Productions http://www.kudos.co.uk/news/eight-bulldog-nominations/20
  9. ↑ Radio-Canada TV http://serienoire.radio-canada.ca/tournage
  10. ↑ ACCT Prix Gémeaux liste des gagnants 2014 http://www.acct.ca/prixgemeaux/gagnants/soiree-des-artisans-et-du-documentaire.html/
  11. ↑ Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3098842/?ref_=nv_sr_1
  12. ↑ Humans becomes Channel 4's biggest drama hit in 20 years http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/22/humans-becomes-channel-4s-biggest-drama-hit-in-20-years

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