Cristobal Tapia de Veer facts for kids

Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer (born October 18, 1973) is a talented music composer and producer from Chile and Canada. He lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is famous for creating music for TV shows and movies.

He is especially known for his work on the TV series The White Lotus. For this show, he won several important Primetime Emmy Awards. He also composed music for the British TV series Utopia, which earned him a Royal Television Society award in 2013. Another notable work is for Channel 4's National Treasure, for which he won a BAFTA award in 2017.

Early Life and Moving to Canada

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer was born in Chile in 1973. This was a time of political change in his home country. His parents had to leave Chile for a while, moving to Paris, France. Later, his mother brought him back to Chile.

However, life was still difficult there. So, they moved to Quebec, Canada, as political refugees. This means they sought safety in Canada because of the situation in their home country.

Music Career Beginnings

Tapia de Veer studied classical music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. He specialized in playing percussion instruments.

In 2001, he joined a pop band called One Ton. They signed with Warner Music. In 2003, his band won the Canadian Dance Music Award (SOCAN) for their electro-dance song "Super... World." Tapia de Veer was the producer for this album.

Composing for Television and Film

Cristóbal Tapia de Veer started composing music for TV shows and movies. His unique style quickly gained attention.

Early TV Series Scores

In 2011, he created music for the drama The Crimson Petal and the White. Critics really liked his work, saying it was "brilliantly, effectively, appropriately jarring." This means his music was very powerful and fit the show perfectly.

He then composed for the Channel 4 thriller Utopia. For this, he won a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award in 2013. The judges said his music felt like it was "being played inside your head." He won another award for the second season of Utopia 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, both in 2014 and 2016. He also worked on BBC's Jamaica Inn and the first season of Humans.

First Feature Film and More TV Success

In 2016, Tapia de Veer 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 this film were later used in trailers for the movie Pet Sematary and the video game Call of Cthulhu.

He also teamed up again with director Marc Munden for National Treasure. This drama series won a BAFTA award, and Tapia de Veer's music also received an award at a festival in France.

He composed music for BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in 2016. Later, he worked on two episodes of the Amazon Prime series Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. For one of these episodes, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He also scored an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror called "Black Museum."

In 2017, SOCAN (a Canadian music organization) gave him their International Achievement Award. This was the first time a film and TV composer received this honor.

Recent Works and Awards

In 2018, Tapia de Veer was invited to be a judge at the Canneseries festival. He then scored his second feature film, Advantages of Travelling by Train, released in 2019. This film won "Best Comedy" at the Goya Awards in 2020, and his music was nominated for an award in Spain.

In 2020, his music was featured in the series Hunters for Amazon Prime and the drama The Third Day for HBO and SKY.

In 2021, he composed the music for the HBO series The White Lotus. This was a huge success for him. He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on the show, one for the main theme music and another for the overall score. He also received an award from the Society of Composers & Lyricists. He was also nominated for his second BAFTA for his music for The Third Day.

The following year, in 2022, he scored the horror film Smile. He also returned to score the second season of The White Lotus and won another Emmy for it. He worked on the third season of The White Lotus as well.

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, Lakeshore Records, 2024)
• Babygirl (A24 Music, 2024)

See also

In Spanish: Cristóbal Tapia de Veer para niños