Meet Jairo and Michaela: A husband-and-wife team of composers with over 20 years of experience working in film, TV, and concert music. Their work has been featured by renowned organizations such as the New York City Opera, the Kurt Weill Festival, and the Cincinnati Opera. Additionally, they have produced music for a diverse range of high-profile clients in the media and entertainment industry, including Lifetime, Netflix, Amazon Prime, FOX Searchlight Pictures, Lantern Entertainment, Universal Production Music/Megatrax, Discovery Channel Latin America, National Geographic, FOX Telecolombia, and SportsNet Ontario. Their versatility and talent have earned them numerous recognitions and a wide-ranging portfolio that spans multiple genres and platforms.

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Recent projects include composing the soundtrack for Lifetime TV thriller A Study of Her Killer by director Marieke Niestadt; three indie feature films by director Detdrich McClure,  the drama Red Camaro, the drama/thriller Fear Of A Black Planet  and the period noir Brown Paper Bag, winner of Best Film and Best Director awards at the 2019 San Diego Black Film Festival; the romantic drama Between Forever, starring Rasheed Stephens; Mickey Levy's short thriller Union, winner of Best Women Short at Indie Short Fest; Skip Battaglia's animated short Car Crash Opera, winner of the ASIFA-EAST Animation Award: Excellence in Soundtrack as well as various experimental shorts by Stephanie Maxwell such as Currents, Ocean, and All That Remains; Jean Detheux's Shade Lost; and Peter Byrne's Murmur.

 

Their work also includes music for trailers with placements in prominent campaigns such as the studio films Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan as well as Lion, starring Nicole Kidman. In addition, in 2021, A-List Music, a division of Megatrax, will be releasing the composers’ new orchestral trailer music album titled Hopeful.

 

Jairo and Michaela also composed and produced the SportsNet orchestral theme for the Toronto Blue Jays 2008-2009 baseball season, recorded with a 55-piece orchestra.  In addition, they scored several documentaries for Discovery Channel Latin America, including the documentaries 47 Hours Without Chávez, NarcoSubmarinos and Operación Sodoma: La caída del Mono Jojoy as well as the National Geographic Channel limited series Inventos de Guerra. 

 

In 2011, their work was featured during the Kurt Weill Festival Old Films & New Music concert at the Sony Center in Berlin, Germany, where they presented over one hour of original compositions for silent films from the 1910’s to 1930’s by Moholy-Nagy, Walter Ruttmann, and Lotte Reiniger.

 

In 2012, Duarte-López and Eremiášová were selected by the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University to compose, Bodas de Sangre, a new operatic work based on the play by Federico Garcia Lorca. In 2014-2015, they were selected to compose additional scenes for the unfinished opera Meet John Doe by the late Mexican composer Daniel Catán (Florencia en el Amazons, Il Postino), as a commission by the Cincinnati Opera for its Opera Fusion: New Works Workshop.

 

In addition, from 2012-2016 they taught Film Scoring as adjunct faculty for the Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music. Duarte-López and Eremiášová’s goal is to bring to any project the best of their abilities and experience in composition and music production.

 

Currently they are based in Los Angeles, California.