Avila Santo
Los Angeles, CA
avilasanto@gmail.com
www.avilasanto.com
310-905-4314
Composition Original Music
Random Acts of Flyness, Season 2, HBO
The Ocean Listens To No One, Ghetto Film School Iceland Thesis Film
RISE, Alison Saar & LACMA
Trust Issues , Directed by Reva Santo
Womb, Body as a Crossroads, Creative Capital
MAZE, Studio Album
Makelé, Studio Album
Awards
2022 Emerging Composer’s Fellow for Ghetto Film School
2021 BLN NWS Musician in Residence
2021 Zeal Artist in Residence
2020 Semi Finalist for the Sundance Composer’s Lab
2016 & 2019 Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affair Artist in Residency Grant
2013 & 2014 Dean’s List, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
2010 - 2014 Young American Musician Scholarship, Berklee College of Music, Boston
Performance
Hand Percussion, Reopening Night, HBO
Hand Percussion, Oscar Jerome, BBC Radio 1
Hand Percussion, Viver Brasil
Hand Percussion, Delta Nove
Performer, VENT, Tokyo Knowledge & Speakeasy TYO (Tokyo)
Performer, Palau De Les Artes Y Ciencias
Drumset, Bardo Martinez & The Doves
Drumset, Klezmer Juice
DJ, Earl Sweatshirt
DJ, BET Awards 2017
Audio/Mixing Engineer & Media Production
2017 Stay Inside Earl Sweatshirt and Knxwledge
2017 Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles
2022 Hilos Sagrados Winter Jendayi
2022 The Dreamer in Their Tower Nahhphet
2020 Trust Issues EP Reva Santo
2021- Bedtime Stories by Black University
Education
Awo of Isese IFA initiated into the Adesanya lineage of Ode Remo
Capoeira Professor of the Capoeira Batuque lineage
B.A. in Professional Music and Percussion from Berklee College of Music class of 2014
Educator
Soundscape Lab at Onipresenca.studio
Music Teacher at California Probation Department
Music Teacher at Carlos Santana Arts Academy
Music Teacher for Pacoima City Hall’s 2017 Afro-Brazilian Workshop
Music Teacher at Fairfax High School and Irving Middle School
Capoeira Teacher at Brasil Brasil Cultural Center