Jeff Beal

b. 1963

American

Summary

Five-time Emmy award winning composer Jeff Beal has received nineteen prime time Emmy nominations for his compositions. His original score of the critically acclaimed Netflix television series House of Cards has received five prime time Emmy nominations and two statues. Jeff is known for his diverse musical approach to film and tv scoring, having written award-winning scores for the films Pollock (2000), Appaloosa (2008), Wilde Salome (2011), and Blackfish (2013), and for television including the shows Monk (2002), Rome (2005), Carnivale (2003), The Company (2007), and House of Cards (2014).

On writing the 'House of Cards' theme
Now based in Los Angeles, Jeff pursued a career as a jazz recording artist and composer in New York and then San Francisco, after studying composition with Christopher Rouse at the Eastman School of Music. He has recorded numerous recordings for Island, Mercury, and Koch Jazz record labels as a performer (trumpet) and composer. With musical roots as a jazz trumpeter and recording artist, Jeff’s compositions are infused with a deep understanding of improvisation, rhythm and spontaneity. Jeff’s work has been performed and recorded by world-renowned soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, including clarinetists Eddie Daniels and Chicago Symphony principal Larry Combs, the American Jazz Philharmonic, and the symphonies of St. Louis, Rochester, Pacific, Frankfurt, Munich, and Detroit.

Biography

Five-time Emmy award winning composer Jeff Beal has received nineteen prime time Emmy nominations for his compositions. His original score of the critically acclaimed Netflix television series House of Cards has received five prime time Emmy nominations and two statues. Jeff is known for his diverse musical approach to film and tv scoring, having written award-winning scores for the films Pollock (2000), Appaloosa (2008), Wilde Salome (2011), and Blackfish (2013), and for television including the shows Monk (2002), Rome (2005), Carnivale (2003), The Company (2007), and House of Cards (2014).

Now based in Los Angeles, Jeff pursued a career as a jazz recording artist and composer in New York and then San Francisco, after studying composition with Christopher Rouse at the Eastman School of Music. He has recorded numerous recordings for Island, Mercury, and Koch Jazz record labels as a performer (trumpet) and composer. With musical roots as a jazz trumpeter and recording artist, Jeff’s compositions are infused with a deep understanding of improvisation, rhythm and spontaneity. Jeff’s work has been performed and recorded by world-renowned soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, including clarinetists Eddie Daniels and Chicago Symphony principal Larry Combs, the American Jazz Philharmonic, and the symphonies of St. Louis, Rochester, Pacific, Frankfurt, Munich, and Detroit.

News

- Sight and Sound
- 12th July 2020
- Music and medicine coexist in a symbiotic partnership. Because song and dance heal us, art is as necessary as medicine in the worst of times. — Brenda J. Child, Northrop Professor of American Studies...
- Dance Series: Composer Profile | Jeff Beal
- 27th January 2020
- Five-time Emmy award-winning composer Jeff Beal has received nineteen prime time Emmy nominations for his compositions. His original score of the critically acclaimed Netflix television series House of Cards has...
- Jeff Beal's New Score for F.W. Murnau Classic Premieres 1/26 at Walt Disney Hall
- 22nd January 2020
- The Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by Artistic Director Grant Gershon, presents the world premiere live-to-picture performance of Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal’s new score for F.W. Murnau’s iconic...
- Brand New Year, Brand New Music: January Premieres
- 3rd January 2020
- Happy New Year to all! Please enjoy the following summary of orchestral premieres commencing the new decade. To inaugurate the 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has...
- Summer Listening: Flute Concertos
- 2nd August 2019
- Our summer listening series continues for a few windy weeks, starting with today's selection of concertos for flute and piccolo. Inspired by humankind's great myths, the flute concertos by John Corigliano, Simon Holt...
- Dancing to Jeff Beal and Nico Muhly
- 13th April 2018
- …complemented by Beal’s soaring score. San Francisco Chronicle on Jeff Beal's 'Oasis' …an irresistible backdrop for Caniparoli's new cutting-edge ballet. Broadway World on Nico Muhly and...

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