Cristobal Tapia de Veer facts for kids

Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a talented composer from Chile and Canada. He creates music for movies and TV shows. He also arranges music, produces songs, and plays many different instruments. Cristóbal lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

He is famous for his music in the British TV series Utopia. For this work, he won a Royal Television Society award in 2013. He also won a BAFTA award in 2017 for his music in Channel 4's National Treasure. He has also received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) in 2013 and 2017.

Early Life

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer was born in Chile in 1973. This was a time of big political changes in his home country. His parents moved to Paris, France for a while. After some time, his mother brought him back to Chile. Life was still hard there, so they moved to Quebec, Canada, where they found a new home.

Career Highlights

Cristóbal studied classical music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. He became an expert in playing percussion instruments.

In 2001, he joined a pop band called One Ton. They signed with Warner Music. This put his classical music career on hold for a bit. His band won the Canadian Dance Music Award (SOCAN) in 2003. Cristóbal also produced their album.

Music for TV Shows

In 2011, Cristóbal created music for a TV drama called The Crimson Petal and the White. Critics really liked his work on this show.

He then composed the music for the thriller series Utopia on Channel 4. He won a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award for "best original music" in 2013. The judges said his music "blurred the lines between sound design and score." This means his music was so unique it felt like part of the show's sounds. His work on Utopia won another award in 2015.

In 2014, he scored the TV show Série noire in Canada. He won two Prix Gémeaux awards for his music on this show. He won again in 2016 for the second season.

He also wrote music for BBC's Jamaica Inn. Later, he composed for the first season of Humans, a show on AMC and Channel 4.

Film Scores

In 2016, Cristóbal scored his first full-length movie, The Girl with All the Gifts. This film opened the Locarno Film Festival. His music for this movie won an award in France in 2017. Parts of his music from The Girl with All the Gifts were used in trailers for other big projects. For example, the opening theme "GIFTED" was used for the 2019 movie Pet Sematary. It was also used for the video game Call of Cthulhu.

Cristóbal worked with director Marc Munden again on National Treasure. This TV drama was inspired by a real-life investigation. His original music for this series won a BAFTA award.

He also scored an episode of Netflix's series Black Mirror called "Black Museum".

In 2017, Amazon Prime asked him to work on two episodes of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. He worked on "HUMAN IS" and "CRAZY DIAMOND". For "CRAZY DIAMOND", he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

In 2018, Cristóbal was invited to be a judge at the Canneseries festival. This is a big event for TV series.

He scored his second movie, Advantages of Travelling by Train, in 2019. This Spanish film won "Best Comedy" at the Goya Awards in 2020. His music for the film also earned him a nomination at Spain's Premios Feroz.

More recently, in 2020, he scored the series Hunters for Amazon Prime. He also worked on the drama The Third Day for HBO and SKY.

In 2021, he composed the music for the HBO series The White Lotus. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for this work. One was for the main theme music, and the other was for his overall score for the series. He also received another BAFTA nomination for his music in The Third Day.

The next year, he scored the horror film Smile. He also returned to score the second season of The White Lotus.

Discography

Soundtrack Releases

• Utopia (Silva Screen Records, 2013)
• Utopia: Season 2 (Silva Screen Records, 2014)
• Humans (Silva Screen Records, 2015)
• National Treasure (Free Run Artists, 2017)
• The Girl with all the Gifts (Mondo, Death Waltz Records, 2017)
• Black Mirror: Black Museum (Lakeshore Records, 2018)
• Philip K. Dick's: Electric Dreams (La La Land Records / 2018)
• The Third Day: Summer (Milan Records / Sony Music, 2020)
• Hunters: Season 1 (2020)
• The White Lotus (WaterTower Music, 2021)
• Smile (Paramount Music, 2022)
• The White Lotus: Season 2 (WaterTower Music, 2022)
• Smile 2 (Paramount Music, 2024)
• Babygirl (A24 Music, 2024)

See also

In Spanish: Cristóbal Tapia de Veer para niños