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 Nashville Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, Florida Orchestra), and in 2024 the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony will jointly premiere an upcoming work as part of a grant from the Sphinx Foundation.

 Recent albums include “Doce Musas”, recorded by 12 emerging pianists from his native Costa Rica, and three albums for Universal, including  “Champion Beats”, co-written with Grammy-winning producer Alex Hitchens and recorded at Capitol Studios, with tracks that have appeared on ABC, ESPN, Univision, Golf Channel, NBA, Tennis Channel, Fox, and other channels. In 2022 he collaborated with producer/ composer Daniel Rojas by writing  incidental music for the celebrated 90th Pageant of the Masters at the Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach.

Recent feature films include the sports documentary King Otto (available on Peacock), the sci-fi Órbita Prima; Nowhere (nominated for Best Film Score in Colombia’s national film awards), the comedy He Matado a mi Marido; and a coming-of-age family film, Buscando a Marcos Ramírez. 

He has twice received rare Honorable Mentions in the National Prize in Composition (Costa Rica) for his works Amalgama (2018) and Pas de Deux (2022). He made his Carnegie Hall compositional debut in 2015 and has led workshops and masterclasses on film scoring and composition at USC, University of Costa Rica, Spain, New Jersey and the University of South Dakota.  Andrés’s music is published by Symphonica Productions.

IMDB