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, David Newman, Irwin Kostal, Paul Smith, Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace, Mychael Danna, Bruce Broughton, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, James Newton Howard, Joe Hisaishi, Alexandre Desplat, Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Thomas Newman, Kevin Kiner, Max Steiner, Angelo Badalamenti, Joel McNeely, Randy Newman, Alan Silvestri and James Horner as influences.