Christophe Beck

Christophe Beck
Background information
Birth name	Jean-Christophe Beck
Born	(1972-11-30) November 30, 1972 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Film score television score
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor
Instruments	Keyboards, piano, saxophone, drums

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

Beck won an Emmy Award 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

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, George Bruns, Bruce Broughton, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Mark Snow, Mychael Danna, Carter Burwell, Alexandre Desplat, Maurice Jarre, Ennio Morricone, Dave Grusin, Michael Kamen, Leonard Bernstein, Max Steiner, Angelo Badalamenti, George Bruns, Randy Newman, Marco Beltrami and James Horner as influences.