Light & Sound is a New York and Argentina-based film scoring collective comprised of pianist and composer, Lucía Caruso, Portuguese guitarist and composer, Pedro H. da Silva, and Argentinian composer and conductor Micaela Carballo.

Collectively, Lucía and Pedro have recorded for many films including: two scores for Oscar-winning director Michel Gondry (“Be Kind Rewind,” “Interior Design” from the “Tokyo” triptych), as well as, recording with acclaimed film composer Jean-Michel Bernard (“The Science of Sleep,” “Human Nature”). Collectively they have scored nine films, including Richard Témtchine’s “How to Seduce Difficult Women,” and two new scores for silent masterpieces by Georges Méliès for full orchestra and choir. Da Silva also composed for the prize-winning documentary “Tijuana nada más...” (2009) by Yolanda Pividal and Carmen Vidal, the winner of a student Oscar. Caruso and da Silva are the founders and directors of the Manhattan Camerata, an innovative chamber orchestra that records and performs many of their film scores, along with their other compositions and arrangements. The ensemble most recently won Best Instrumental Performance at the prestigious 2017 International Portuguese Music Awards. 

In addition to film, the duo was commissioned to compose two hours of orchestral and chamber music for a prominent international photo-scoring project, Through My Window, for visionary photographer and poet Ahae. Accompanied with this project, a full album of chamber and orchestral compositions was recorded in London at the legendary Abbey Road Studio 1 by the London Metropolitan Orchestra with Caruso and da Silva as soloists.

Da Silva is a professor at New York University where he teaches composition and film scoring, and classical guitar. Caruso has a Masters degree in composition and film scoring from New York University, where she studied with celebrated film composer Ira Newborn (“Naked Gun”, “Ferris Buller’s Day Off” and “Ace Ventura”).

They have travelled the world playing “music that soars in astonishing lyrical emotion and rhythmic drive” (Whole Note Magazine) in venues such as the Louvre Museum, the Versailles Palace, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. Their rich cultural backgrounds and vast knowledge of music are immediately noticeable, as the two create breathtaking soundscapes that captivate audiences. Their ability to blend unlikely genres and instruments have garnered them many awards, both receiving individual ASCAP Plus Awards in 2015 and 2016 and a nomination from Naxos Records for the Official Grammy 2017 Selection for the Manhattan Camerata's latest album, The Tango Fado Project. Those categories included “Best New Artist," “Producer of the Year,” "Best World Music Album," “Best Engineered Album," and four songs were nominated for "Best Composition/Arrangement." 

Micaela Carballo is an Argentinian composer and conductor. She was born in Balcarce, Bs As, Argentina, in 1988. She began studying piano at the age of 6 and went on to study Basic Musical Training at Balcarce School of Art. In 2013. Carballo graduated as a Music Composer and later graduated as Choral Conductor from the University of La Plata, Buenos Aires. In 2015 Carballo was awarded a full scholarship by Fundación Carolina in Spain, to complete a Master’s degree in Film Scoring at ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya-Barcelona). As the final work of the program, she recorded the music for the animation film Dubicel (Celeste Estudio Creativo, La Plata) played by the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. In 2018 she was awarded the scholarship from the Argentinian National Endowment for the Arts to compose the music for the opera “La voix d’argent”. Carballo was selected to attend the Los Angeles Film conducting intensive workshop in Los Angeles, where she conducted and recorded two original pieces of music for symphony orchestra “HB” and “Time for nostalgia” with the Hollywood Studio Symphony orchestra at Warner Bros Studios. Recently, she completed the SCL Mentoring Program for composers as one of the mentees in New York City. She won awards for best original score with the film “Dubicel” at Golden Nugget Film Festival (UK), NYCA Cinematography Award from New York and Buenos Aires International Film Festival. She won the award for best original music at Arte Non Stop Festival (Buenos Aires) for the music of “The gesture of paint”.

Carballo’s work as a composer includes different styles and musical ensembles. She started by composing choral music, such as “The melancoly dead of Oyster boy” and “Ha ka’awy”, the latter, a piece for chorus and instrumental group in guarani language premiering in La Plata in 2013. She composed music for plays by the Integration through Art Workshops at the Argentine Theater in La Plata and several independent plays in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Barcelona “Dejarse ir”, “Errantes”, “Carbono 14”, “Los inadaptados de siempre”, "Una Furia Patria", "La niña de la muñeca de trapo", the last “Paterland”, among others. Carballo has also composed original music for a variety of films such as “La tulipe bleue”, “El chiquillo azul y el hombre de la luna” (Barcelona), “Sr.”, “When the cinema was born”, “The gesture of paint”, “Time for Nostalgia” (La Plata) and for several animation short-film as “HB the music of the Universe”, “Match Point” (Buenos Aires). 

She is a member of SCL The Society of Composers & Lyricist, Alliance for Women Film Composer in US and a member of the Argentine Association of Composers in Argentina. Currently, Carballo is the deputy conductor of the Argentine Air Force Band and at the same time works as an instructor in the field of Audition at the ENERC Film School in Buenos Aires and In Jujuy.