Carlos Garza is a film composer and sound designer. Together with Rich O’Meara he has score 14 feature-length silent films. In 2019, he completed the UCLA Extension Film Scoring Certificate program with top honors. There he learned conducting and scoring for symphonic instruments. He brings his knowledge of classical concert instruments to his studio and live use of sample-based virtual instruments.
Garza has scored three feature films for director, Jonathan Zuck. They are Rogue Hunter (2012), Within The Darkness (2016), and Meant To Be Broken (2018). In 2019, he scored the feature documentary, Fighting For Allergy-Free Food, directed by Tamar Kummel.
The UCLA film music program sharpened his music production skills, which he uses to produce the two Silent Orchestra albums and the two 5.0 surround scores that were released by Image Entertainment. Prior to venturing into film scoring with Rich O’Meara, Garza was a frequent member of the Washington, D.C. music community. He played contemporary and mainstream jazz with The Bruce Middle Group. He was a founding member of the Young Professionals, who played regularly at the Nightclub 9:30 in the early days of the punk/New Wave movement. In the early 90's he played keyboards with Margot Chapman and Loot.
In recent years, he has returned to his songwriting roots in a joint collaboration with Pamela Gilbreath Kelly for her play, EVER WILL about the life of William Shakespeare. He produced demo recordings of the songs using some of the finest sessions vocalists from Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The play will make its stage debut in January 2025 with a staged-reading at the The Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s, Helen Borgers Theatre in Long Beach, California.
Rich O’Meara is most known for his compositions for marimba that are performed and recorded throughout the world. He is a founding member of Silent Orchestra; a collaborative duo with Carlos Garza to develop and perform new scores for classic silent films. His solo album, Red Chard, features works for solo marimba, chamber percussion, electronic music, and improvisation. His work has been featured on the NPR program “New Sounds” and the PBS documentary “The Music Instinct, Science and Song”. He presented a master class and concert of his works at the Eighth International Festival of Percussion in Argentina and has received four ASCAP Plus awards. Working with playwright/actor David Kessler, he created and performed music for two live multi-media theater productions during the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC.
O’Meara has performed with Kwo’m Percussion, Sandbox Percussion, One Earth Percussion Theatre, the Contemporary Music Forum, Dan Deacon, the National Symphony Orchestra, and as a soloist with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and The Women Composer’s Orchestra. He is an active member of the experimental music scene, and has produced four albums with Colla Parte, a quartet that creates music in the moment.
Rich and his wife, Patsy, currently live in Bethel, Connecticut with their extended family and four dogs.
