Interview Jeff Beal

Composer Jeff Beal is a Five-time EMMY® winner who is born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jeff was a self-taught pianist and spent countless hours in the library learning music theory and composition on his own. At the age of 17 he composed a trumpet concerto. Jeff writes music for the concert hall but also for film and television. He worked with directors such as Ed Harris, Lauren Greenfeld, David Fincher, Oliver Stone and Rob Reiner. He wrote music for films and television shows such as Pollock, Appaloosa, House of Cards, The Putin Interviews, The Queen of Versailles, Shock and Awe, Blackfish, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel, Rome, Carnivàle, Rule Breakers, All Her Fault and many more. Jeff will premiere, during this year’s composer summit in Prague, new symphonic music that he has written for the 1927 film classic Metropolis.

In this new episode of Composer Talk composer Jeff Beal takes us into the composing process for the 1927 silent movie classic Metropolis which will be performed live in Prague during the Composer Summit. Next to that we go into the piece he wrote for Pictures at an Exhibition: The paintings of Bob Peak project and his latest volume of New York Etudes for piano.

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