Multiple award winning Cristobal "Cristo" Tapia de Veer is a Chilean born, classically trained musician, producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and composer for film & TV based in Montreal, Canada.

Hailed as a "musical genius" by Paste Magazine and NME, Cristobal Tapia de Veer is recognized for creating some of the most memorable soundtracks in modern entertainment.

"Music is an essential chaperone in entertainment, intensifying the action on the screen as well as the emotions that audiences feel, and Cristobal Tapia de Veer's art reminded us of the vitality of the work of the composer in 2021," said Miami Film Festival Executive Director Jaie Laplante. "We are thrilled to be able to present him our Art of Light (Composer) Award at the 2022 Miami Film Festival."

"Cristobal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born composer, whose classical music training and ingenious sense of composition brought him iconic status. Many publications have dubbed him a musical genius, and folks who watched The White Lotus most recently, continue to talk about his eerie theme composition. But Tapia de Veer has a long and fruitful career, long before The White Lotus. (Collider, Anja Djuricic)

Cristobal Tapia de Veer was born during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. 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, Canada.

Cristo holds a Master's Degree in Classical Music (specialization: percussion) from the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, CA.

In 2011 he scored his first mini-TV series "The Crimson Petal and the White" (dir: Marc Munden, BBC2), nominated at the BAFTA'S 2012 for Best mini-series.

2 years later Munden and Cristo teamed up again to work on C4's critically acclaimed cult series "Utopia". The 2 x 6 episode long conspiracy thriller won an International EMMY Award 2014 for best drama series. His music for Utopia won several awards (both seasons) and became an international milestone in the scoring world.

In 2013, he composed the music for ICI-Radio-Canada's new TV-drama "Série Noire", for which he won twice at the PRIX GEMEAUX (Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television) in 2014 and received a third trophy for the second season in 2016.

The following year, AMC / C4's co-production "Humans" became C4's biggest drama hit in 20 years and got nominated for best drama series at the BAFTAs 2016.

His first feature film "The Girl with all the Gifts" opened the Locarno Film Festival and was released in fall 2016 (distr: Warner UK). Cristo won in the best original music category at the 24th Festival International du Film Fantastique Gérardmer 2017, the film also won the public choice award.

The same year Cristo was awarded a Golden Fipa 2017 (Festival de Film de Biarritz) as well as a BAFTA for C4's mini-series "National Treasure", which was hailed among critics as the most powerful series of the year.

BBC-America's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" has been released in fall 2016 and has gathered cult status amongst its fans on Netflix worldwide. "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Crazy Diamond" (Amazon, C4), earned him an EMMY nomination in 2017. His music to the highly acclaimed season 4 finale of Netflix' dark sci-fi anthology series "Black Mirror - Black Museum" put him farther on the international scoring map.

SOCAN honoured Cristo with the prestigious International Achievement Award in fall 2017, marking the first time that a composer for film and television has been awarded the prize. Previous recipients of the award include bands such as Arcade Fire. He was named AV composer of the year 2021 and 2023.

Due to his monumental success, Cristo was invited to be part of the jury at the 1st edition of Canneseries in France in 2018. CANNESERIES aims to highlight series from all over the world and to give an international voice to this increasingly popular and fiercely creative new art form.

His music to HBO's limited drama series "The Third Day" (Plan B Entertainment, Punchdrunk International) earned him 6 nominations for best music including another BAFTA nom.

His outstanding tribal score for Mike White's "The White Lotus" (HBO), lightened up the days for audiences during the pandemic and has been widely acclaimed since. In 2022 Cristo received 2 EMMY's for it (for Best Television Score, Limited Series, and Best Main Title Theme) and received another EMMY nomination for the 2nd Season.

Paramount's surprise hit "Smile" made over 220M worldwide and held the #1 spot for over 2 weeks at the domestic box office. Cristo's music has been hailed by critics and fans once again!

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Cristobal Tapia de Veer, David Hinojosa, Sophie Wilde, Antonio Banderas, Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson and Halina Reijn attends a red carpet for “Babygirl” during the 81st Venice International Film Festival

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl (2024)

Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood, Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, Tayme Thapthimthong, Sam Nivola, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Lalisa Manobal in The White Lotus (2021)

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