About

Andrés Soto is a Costa Rican composer based in Los Angeles with an active career in both film and concert music. He has written music for several feature films, documentaries, shorts, trailers and video games, as well as numerous concert works that have been performed by orchestras around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Juilliard, Nashville Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and many others. In 2024 the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony jointly premiered “Fantasía en la Plaza”, a commission with funding by the American Composers Forum and the Sphinx Foundation.

In 2023 he received the prestigious Reel Change Film Fund from New Music USA for his score for the upcoming Colombian-American film “Colibrí”. He has written 4 albums for Universal Production Music, which have been featured in TV broadcasts around the world on networks such as ABC, CBS, ESPN, BBC, Channel 4, Univision, Telemundo, Golf Channel, FOX, and many others, including social media content by the NBA and 2K Games.

He has collaborated with Daniel Rojas on live music for the prestigious Pageant of the Masters that takes place yearly in Laguna Beach, California, with Grammy-award winning composer Alex Hitchens on several projects, and with the British band The Struts. In 2023 he wrote the original score for Wildmender, a video game available on Steam, XBOX, and PS5.

His classical music has received Honorable mention twice at the National Music Prize in Composition in his native Costa Rica. He has led workshops and masterclasses at several universities (both in spanish and english) such as Univ. of Southern California, University of Costa Rica, Alaquas School in Spain, University of South Dakota, Hofstra University. His orchestral music is published by Symphonica Productions.

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World Premiere of “Fantasía en la Plaza” at one the New York Philharmonic’s celebrated Young People’s Concert, featuring the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, as part of the American Composer Forum’s “Composing Inclusion” program. Aprll 2024

Andres is not a director. If you are a director and are reading this, he will let you sit on this chair for sure!!!

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Above: photos from the Young People’s Concert of April 2024 where the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra jointly premiered my “Fantasía en la Plaza”, which was commissioned thanks to the Composing Inclusion program of the American Composers Forum, powered by the Sphinx Venture Fund.

Above: Images from the mixing session of Champion Beats at Capitol Records – where we recorded strings for the Universal Production Music “Champion Beats”, whose tracks have featured on many networks and sporting events such as The Masters, Wimbledon, and NFL, NBA, and FIFA games.

Andrés Soto Marín

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