Valeri Ortiz is a Filipina-American composer and pianist from Livonia, MI, now based in Los Angeles, CA. She scored an Intel® ad that announced the launch of the new Intel® Core™ i9 Processor, and Population Media Center’s Crossing the Line podcast (featured on Apple Podcast’s New and Noteworthy). Her credits include additional music on Max’s Julia, the BAFTA and WGA nominated series about the life and career of Julia Child, and score coordination on Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Valeri’s music has been placed in the long-running TV show Bondi Rescue, Foxtel’s The Great Australian Bake Off hosted by comedian Natalie Tran (also known as communitychannel on YouTube), ABC series’ Muster Dogs, Inside The Sydney Opera House, and The Family Court Murders, and numerous Channel Seven Network shows including Homicide With Ron Iddles, Disappearance Of William Tyrrell, Granny Killer: The Unsolved Murders, Armed And Dangerous, Adventure Gold Diggers, and Code 1: Minute by Minute. She was chosen as a finalist in the inaugural Press Start Orchestra Composer Competition, and her entry for the Rec Change Game Audio Competition received an honorable mention.
While attending Berklee College of Music for the Composition for Film, TV, and Games diploma, Valeri was selected to be part of the Women in Animation mentorship circle led by AWFC president Catherine Joy (Minari, RBG). She was also chosen to participate in a workshop under the direction of Rob Teehan (Elementary, Jessica Jones, Homeland).
Valeri’s revere for music was evident from a young age; she would spend her days plucking out songs that she heard on the TV or radio on her toy keyboard. She was promptly enrolled in piano lessons, and as a result, learned to read sheet music before she learned the entire alphabet (this later caused a meltdown at preschool when she was informed that there were letters beyond A through G). That said, her love for film scoring was realized in the 2015 Orlando 48 Hour Film Project where the film she wrote music for, Wake Up, directed by Joshua Ortiz, went on to be selected for a special screening at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She was awarded in the two subsequent Orlando 48-Hour Film Projects, and she has since been devoted to the craft of creating scores that serve to immerse the viewer in the world of the beheld media.
