Juan Cortés Arango is a Colombian composer currently residing in Los Angeles. His work combines the passion for music with audiovisual storytelling, and the format of which expands across a variety of genres and styles, including but not limited to film scoring, audiovisual installation, etc.

His most recent scores for Film and TV includes two documentaries, Fastest Mom in the World and High Time, directed by Emmy-Award Winning Director Diego Hurtado de Mendoza for the Olympics Committee; HBO Max and Hulu Asia’s acclaimed TV series, The Head Season III; and French Director-Duo Hannah Ladoul and Marco La Via’s latest feature film starring Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Riseborough and Morgan Saylor, Funny Birds, which is also executive produced by Martin Scorsese. As an additional composer, Juan most recently contributed to the score for MGM+’s reinterpretation of the Sherwood legend, Robin Hood, with his mentor, acclaimed Argentine composer Federico Jusid.

Juan also composed the original score for Misfortune (“Mala Fortuna”) , an Amazon Original Series infused with familial tensions, heart wrenching romance and impossible human connections. He scored Anywhere With You (“Nous Les Coyotes”), which received accolades when it premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2018. Another notable example of Juan’s original score is Above the Great Rivers, a nature documentary series tracing the landscapes upstream the Yangtze River produced and distributed by the Chinese Central Television.

Juan contributed additional scores for Pablo Larrain’s Golden Globe-nominated Neruda; Judd Apatow’s HBO docuseries George Carlin’s American Dream; Amazon Studios’ Life Itself, starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde; Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz’s Loving Pablo; acclaimed Spanish animation director Salvador Simó’s Dragonkeeper and Descendants: The Royal Wedding (Disney); BBC One’s animated series directed by Noam Murro, Watership Down; the Academy Award nominee A Twelve-Year Night, directed by Álvaro Brechner; etc.

Aside from his endeavors in film composition, Juan collaborates closely with Hexany Audio, an audio studio for video games, virtual reality and interactive media.

Juan has a double major in Film Scoring and Electronic Production & Design from Berklee College of Music.