Colombian composer Orlando Pérez Rosso writes scores that fuse orchestral composition, manipulated South American folk instruments, and contemporary production techniques. A sound shaped by two decades inside both Colombia’s musical traditions and Hollywood’s studio system.

His latest film Simbiontes is a supernatural drama filmed in Colombia’s Los Estoraques National Natural Park. The film has very little dialogue and carries an expansive soundtrack that drives the story. FAAB (Feedback Actuated Augmented Bass), Colombian gaitas, alegre, tambora and other traditional percussion instruments, and a 30 piece string orchestra. The score was awarded by New Music USA’s Reel Change Film Fund.

Mooned for Illumination Entertainment was produced by Pierre Coffin and directed by Jonathan del Val, and had its theatrical premiere alongside Migration. He composed Episodes 3 and 4 of Tim Burton: Life in the Line directed by Tara Wood, and has recorded additional music for Lucasfilm’s The Acolyte and the upcoming Korean film Hope.

Working with composer Michael Abels over the course of six years Orlando was able to work on additional music and score production on Jordan Peele’s film Nope, Us, and the Academy Award-winning Get Out, as well as the Emmy-nominated HBO Documentary Allen v. Farrow.

Growing up in Ocaña, Colombia (northeast of Bogotá) he moved to the capital to attend Universidad Javeriana to study music production and composition. It was there that a borrowed library copy of Koyaanisqatsi would shift his trajectory. Listening to what Philip Glass was able to do with that film’s images led him to dive into film. After working as a producer, mixer, and live musician across Colombia’s music industry, Orlando relocated to Los Angeles in 2013 to pursue film scoring at UCLA Extension.

Orlando was named a BAFTA Breakthrough US composer in 2021 for his score on Universal Pictures’ silent film restoration of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Alumni of the Universal Pictures Composers Initiative. Received nominations from the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Soundtrack Cologne’s Peer Raben Music Award, and the Jerry Goldsmith Awards.