Vera-Rivera was a founding member of prestigious authors and academic institutions, some of which he represented in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Sweden, France and England.
[4] He was the founder and director of SVR Producciones, a recording label created in 1987 to publish Chilean and Latin American concert and folk music from the 20th century.
By the end of 1993, his "Silogístika II" for voice (alto), clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano obtained the highest score in it category in the sixth edition of the contemporary Latin American music festival Trimalca (Tribuna Musical de América Latina y el Caribe) that took place in Mar del Plata (Argentina).
His harmonization of another song by Violeta Parra, "Gracias a la Vida", was performed for the first official visit of a President of Finland to Chile on March 5, 1997 at the Municipal Theater of Santiago by the Finnish artists Johanna Rusanen (soprano) and Ilkka Paananen (piano).
In 2009, Santiago Vera-Rivera, director of SVR Producciones, received the Chilean award Prize of the President of Republic 2009, in the category Phonographic Production.