Christophe Beck

Canadian composer and conductor

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Christophe Beck
Background information
Birth nameJean-Christophe Beck
Born (1972-11-30) November 30, 1972 (age 51)[1][2]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres
  • Film score
  • television score
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • conductor
Instruments

Jean-Christophe Beck (born November 30, 1972) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian television and film score composer and conductor.

Beck won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series in 1998, for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

His movie works include The Hangover, The Muppets (2011), Frozen, Marvel's Ant-Man movies, and Frozen II.

Influences change

Beck stated composers like Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, Alan Menken, Buddy Baker, Michael Giacchino, Joel McNeely, J.A.C. Redford, Irwin Kostal, Paul Smith, Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace, Bruce Broughton, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Mark Snow, James Newton Howard, Alexandre Desplat, Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Michael Kamen, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Max Steiner, Angelo Badalamenti, George Bruns, Randy Newman, Marco Beltrami and James Horner as influences.

References change

  1. "Christophe Beck Biography". 17 February 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. "Christophe Beck - IMDb". Retrieved February 14, 2020.