Arturo Rodriguez - Composer, conductor and pianist born in Monterrey, México. His works have been performed and recorded by orchestras around the world like Philharmonia Orchestra, Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and by most major orchestras in México.

In Hollywood he has worked as conductor for major films like Furious 7 and IT Chapter 2 and has orchestrated music for films like Lights Out and the Oscar winning documentary Free Solo. He has collaborated with the San Francisco Symphony for their Día de los Muertos concerts and has made orchestral arrangements for Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their Noche de Cine and Power to the People concerts.

After his debut as a piano soloist at age 15, Rodríguez has had an active career as a pianist, composer and conductor. At age 17 he was the youngest recipient of México’s Mozart Medal, awarded by the Austrian Embassy in that country. He studied piano with Van Cliburn gold medalist José Feghali and orchestral conducting with Germán Gutiérrez and Stanley DeRusha. His first two symphonic works, Mosaico Mexicano and From Earth to Mars were premiered while he was still an undergraduate in college. Mosaico Mexicano was premiered by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2000 and From Earth to Mars by the TCU Symphony Orchestra and chorus conducted by the composer.

Following his piano and conducting studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX and Butler University in Indianapolis, IN, he studied film scoring at the Aspen Music Festival & School (2001), the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Hollywood (2003) and was a composer fellow at the Sundance Music Institute (2010). He was also assistant conductor for maestro John Williams for his Film Night concerts in Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2012.

His music for film and the concert hall has been recorded by Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí, and The National Symphony Orchestra of Slovakia and is distributed by Kronos Records, MovieScoreMedia, and Sueños de Luna Records.