Carlos Garza is a composer, sound designer and music editor for film and video. He has scored 15 feature films and more than 20 shorts and animations. In 2009, he was awarded the top composing prize in the Washington, DC 48 Hour Film Project for his work in “Star Pupil.”

He is known for live accompaniment of classic and contemporary silent films in the duo, Silent Orchestra with Rich O’Meara. Together they created a new sound for classic silent films.  Silent Orchestra received critical acclaim for their Dolby surround scores for the Nosferatu (1922) and Salomé (1923) DVDs from Image Entertainment.  Carlos and Rich performed their Nosferatu score at the AFI Silver Theater last Halloween. Silent Orchestra will perform their acclaimed score for SALOME (1923) in August of 2010. Stay tuned for details!

He contributed to the soundtrack for, THIRTEEN (1997) with Cecil Hooker (violin) and Shep Williams (keyboards). The feature, directed by David Williams, was shown at worldwide film festivals and received a jury award at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.

News

November, 2011

The Anthony Faust film, “A Rock and a Hard Place” has been picked up for distribution with Shorts International, the most prestigious distribution company for short films in the world. It was also an official selection in the World Music and Independent Film Festival.

The premiere of the Silent Orchestra score for Metropolis was on May 14, 2011 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We had a full house again and a standing ovation.

In 2010, I completed the score to A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.   The film was accepted to the Reel Independent Film Festival (Oct. and the Rehoboth Film Festival in November.  The Fairfax Connection has background on the film and the trailer is on my video demos page.

An interview with yours truly appears on the web site of director, Anthony Faust. Check out the music demos page for a sample.

My silent film music ensemble, Silent Orchestra performed 4 shows last Halloween weekend at AFI Silver in Silver Spring, MD.  We performed Salomé (1923) and NOSFERATU (1922).

 View a quick demo of my music:

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