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Jeff Beal is a composer with a genre-defying musical fluidity. His fi lm scores have received
critical acclaim, while he remains a respected composer in the concert, theater and dance
worlds.
Beal’s evocative score and theme for
the
Netflix
drama
House of Cards
received four Emmy
Award nominations, and recently won for outstanding score, bringing Beal’s Emmy tally to
fi fteen nominations and four statues. Other lauded series include HBO’s
Carnivale
and
Rome
.
Film scores feature the documentaries
Blackfi sh
and
Queen of Versailles
and dramas
Pollock
and
Appaloosa
.
Beal’s orchestral works have been performed by the St. Louis, Rochester, Pacifi c, Munich, and
Detroit symphony orchestras.
C
ommissions include works for the Metropole Orchestra, The
Ying Quartet, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Henry Mancini Institute, Prism Br
ass Quintet,
Smuin
Ballet,
and grammy winner Jason Vieaux.
His fi rst choral commission,
The Salvage Men
, was
written for the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Eric Whitacre Singers. Music for theater
includes 2015 the World Science Festival production
Light Falls
.
Born and raised in the San Fransisco Bay Area, Beal's grandmother was a pianist who
performed on the radio and as accompanist for silent movies. Beal graduated from the
Eastman School of Music where he and his wife, Joan, recently donated $2 million to the
creation of The Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media.
