Jeff Beal

Emmy award winning composer Jeff Beal is a member of a new generation of eclectic composers; fluent in the diverse languages of jazz, classical, contemporary, electronic and world music - composing for screen, Cds and concert hall.

As a film composer, Beal scored Ed Harris’ acclaimed directorial debut, POLLOCK. Utilizing heroic and ironic Americana themes, this score established Beal as an innovator. Recent scores include Bob Rafelson’s noir feature starring Samuel Jackson, NO GOOD DEED, William H. Macy's Emmy awarded DOOR TO DOOR, and the theme and underscore for USA’s hit comedy series, MONK. Beal scored Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion, a documentary initiated by the Dalai Lama, currently showing around the country. He received two Emmy awards in 2003, one for his score to the NBC Sports division's Olympic documentary, Peggy and Dorothy, and one for his main title theme for Monk. This fall, Beal composed the evocative underscore for the HBO original series, Carnivale.

Beal’s concert music has been performed by many leading orchestras and conductors, including the St. Louis, Frankfurt, Munich, and Detroit Symphonies. American conductor Kent Nagano commissioned and conducted the world premiere of two concert works; Interchange (recorded by the Turtle Island String Quartet, Neeme Jarvi and the Detroit Symphony) and Alternate Route (recorded by Nagano, the Berkeley Symphony and Beal as trumpet soloist) Beal’s seven solo jazz CDs, including Three Graces, Contemplations and Red Shift (Koch Jazz) have established him as a respected recording artist.

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