Pieter Schlosser

Pieter Schlosser (born August 17, 1980) is a Guatemalan-American film and television composer best known for Destiny 2, Disney’s Secrets Of Sulphur Springs, Telemundo’s Malverde: El Santo Patron, You, Me and the Apocalypse, The Lying Game, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He has also composed scores for multiple studio films and network television shows. Early life and influences Schlosser was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a Dutch mother and Costa Rican father of German descent, who introduced him to jazz and classical music at a young age. He cites opera, musicals and Disney films as his earliest influences. During his childhood, his family lived and traveled between Guatemala, Austria, Panama, and Costa Rica, enabling him to expand his musical vocabulary. While living in Austria, he began singing in choirs and learned to play the piano. After moving to Panama, he began singing in a Swedish choir which sang in Spanish, English, French, German, and Swedish. He began learning saxophone and, after moving to Costa Rica, playing in symphonic bands, youth orchestra, and small jazz ensembles. who was recording an album with songs by Costa Rican composers, included Schlosser’s w