Tomás Videla is a Los Angeles based composer for film, television and media, who creates highly elaborate orchestral music often mixed with hybrid and electronic elements. He is also an experienced orchestrator and skilled conductor.

As a composer he scored several short films, from live action to animation, including Jeong, selected at the Silicone Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Asian Film Festival, Los Angeles, Hollywood and the Vermiose Film Festival where it won “Best Original Score”, Prom Night, selected at Reeling: Chicago LGBT Film Festival, Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs LGBT Film Festivals, and over 5 million views on YouTube, Warm Regards, screened at Central Michigan International Film Festival, Short To The Point and Los Angeles Animation Festival) and Good Neighbor, award-winning short screened at the Virginia Film Festival. His piece Midwest Tango was nominated for Best Instrumental at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2022. Tomas also wrote music for Apple TV+ documentary series The Dynasty: New England Patriots, Mattel’s He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe, streaming on Netflix, Disney’s LEGO Star Wars: Terrifying Tales, Netflix’s A Tale Dark And Grimm, HBO’s Documentary Series The Invisible Pilot, Netflix’s Emmy-nominated and HMMA-nominated feature documentary Kangaroo Valley and NatGeo’s Emmy-nominated feature documentary Retrograde, to name a few. As an orchestrator and conductor he is featured in the documentary shorts Cities of the Future (narrated by John Krasinski) and Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels (narrated by Matthew McConaughey), the film American Traitor: The Trial Of Axis Sally (starring Al Pacino) nominated for Outstanding Original Score at the SCL Awards, Sand And Snow, Mucho Mucho Amor (screened at Sundance Film Festival, South By Southwest Film Festival and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and now streaming on Netflix), and Force Of Nature, starring Mel Gibson. He has conducted sessions at the Newman Scoring Stage at Fox Studios, Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers Studios, Hollywood Scoring and the Chicago Recording Company. He has also done arrangements for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica De La Policía Federal De Buenos Aires and the opera Ópera Martin Fierro, to name a few. He is also a skilled pianist and has performed in musicals like Aida, The Count Of Montecristo and Yo No Soy Amy. He is currently working with award-winning composer H. Scott Salinas. Tomás is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Recording Academy, Society of Composers and Lyricists and Hollywood Music In Media Academy.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he started studying piano, exploring classical music first and later switching to jazz and tango. He got his bachelor degree in Music Composition at Universidad Catolica Argentina (UCA) and later moved to Chicago to pursue his masters in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago, where he was awarded a Graduate Assistant position and a full scholarship. While in Chicago he worked as the assistant to the Columbia College Chicago New Music Ensemble arranging pieces and conducting. While in Los Angeles he has been accepted to the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive.

Tomas has collaborated with several musicians, such as award-winning composers Michael Kramer, H. Scott Salinas, Jeff Morrow, Dino Meneghin, Theodore Shapiro, Peter Golub, Brandon Campbell, David Wingo, Nathan Wang, Kubilay Üner and Adam Dib, singer-songwriter Jessica Childress, composer and pianist Nico Posse and Sebastian Huydts, and conductors Allen Tinkham and Angel Velez, to name a few.