Juan Cortés Arango is a Colombian composer currently residing in Los Angeles. His portfolio combines music with the passion for audiovisual storytelling, spanning across film, television, and occasionally games and installation art.

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 International 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, 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 Argentinian 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 Judd Apatow’s HBO docuseries George Carlin’s American Dream; acclaimed Spanish animation director Salvador Simó’s Dragonkeeper and Descendants: The Royal Wedding (Disney); etc. Other notable credits include Pablo Larrain’s Golden Globe-nominated Neruda; Amazon Studios’ Life Itself, starring Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde; Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz’s Loving Pablo; 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.