Eduardo Rivera
Eduardo J. Rivera is a prolific composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
With over a decade of experience in the music industry, Eduardo J. Rivera has honed his craft as a formally trained composer, and producer with a skill set few can match. He recently scored the epic trailer for Shakti written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Nani Sahra Walker (The Last Repair Shop) as well as the trailer for the award winning documentary Patrol for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Non Profit Organization ReWild, partnering with long time friend, Director Brad Allgood. Rivera had the honor of being the senior composer for Wait What, the company formed by the co-founders of TED Talks, for 2.5 years. Throughout his tenure with Wait What, Rivera composed for multiple shows: Masters of Scale, Meditative Story, and Spark & Fire for which he won a Signal Award for Best Original Score.
His music has also been featured in Netflix’s show, “Trinkets” as well as ABC’s, “The Rookie”. In 2017, Rivera wrote music for the award-winning Documentary, “Sea Gypsies: Far Side of the World”.
In addition to scoring for media, Rivera has stayed busy producing top Los Angeles indie artist talents such as: Lauren Ruth Ward, Oddnesse, Alicia Blue, Anahita Skye, and Tinkers.
With his diverse musical background, education, and formal training, Rivera can draw from an array of masterful composers before him, while maintaining an aesthetic distinctly his own.
As a BIPOC composer, Eduardo J. Rivera aims to elevate the voice of minorities and create opportunities for underrepresented composers and musicians.