Jeff Beal


Amoeba Hollywood - May 9th @ 6:00pm



Composer Jeff Beal performs live at Amoeba Hollywood with a septet to celebrate the release of "The Biggest Little Farm" soundtrack (Lakeshore Records) Thursday, May 9th at 6pm! Purchase your copy of the soundtrack in-store only at Amoeba Hollywood on May 9th to meet Jeff after the performance and get it signed.

 

"the richness of Beal's musical thinking...his compositions often capture the liveliness and unpredictability of the best improvisation.” - New York Times

 

"The Biggest Little Farm" chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Screening at Arclight Hollywood beginning May 9th.

 

Jeff Beal’s enormous contributions to prestige television, cherished comedy series, and award-winning documentary films have earned him 18 Emmy nominations, five statuettes, and the loyalty of top filmmakers for both the big and small screen. His dark, operatic, and richly orchestrated score for the critically-lauded Netflix series "House of Cards" has earned him six Emmy nominations and the Best TV Composer of the Year Award at the 2016 World Soundtrack Awards. His fifth season music recently also won an Emmy for outstanding music composition for a series. Beal’s diverse voice—informed by his conservatory training and jazz background—has augmented the comedy on the long-running USA series "Monk," starring Tony Shalhoub (Beal’s season one theme song earned him his first Primetime Emmy), and on the beloved ABC comedy "Ugly Betty." His work has graced the high-end HBO period dramas "Carnivàle" and Rome" (with four Emmy nominations for music between them), the horse-racing drama series "Luck" (starring Dustin Hoffman), and the final season of Aaron Sorkin’s "The Newsroom" (starring Jeff Daniels). His ongoing collaboration with Ed Harris has yielded scores for the actor’s directorial efforts with the biopic "Pollock" and the western "Appaloosa." Beal’s empathic music has complemented the real stakes of potent documentary films like "Blackfish," "Spirit of the Marathon," and "The Queen of Versailles." Over the course of his distinguished career, he has collaborated with such established veterans as Al Pacino, Michael Mann, Tom Hanks, Ridley Scott, Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher, Ed Harris, and "House of Cards" creator Beau Willimon. Beal’s other work includes Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Jon Dunham’s documentary feature "Boston" about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, "The Putin Interviews" documentary directed by Oliver Stone, "The Sweet Life" directed by Rob Spera, and "Shock and Awe" directed by Rob Reiner starring Jessica Biel and Woody Harrelson. Beal’s recent work is comprised of "The Price of Everything" directed by Nathaniel Kahn, "The Bleeding Edge" directed by Kirby Dick, George Gallo’s feature drama "Bigger," the inspirational tale of the grandfathers of fitness, Joe and Ben Weider and "Generation Wealth" directed by Lauren Greenfield. Jeff’s upcoming work includes the Sundance hit documentary "The Biggest Little Farm" set to hit theaters on May 10th, Sebring directed by Anthony DiMaria, The Grand Hotel directed by Ken Olin, and the feature drama "Inside Game" directed by Randall Batinkoff.

 

Beal grew up near San Francisco, and immediately took to the trumpet and jazz music. He started composing in his teens, and pursued mastery of his instrument and writing craft at the Eastman School of Music in New York. He soon found the perfect home for his gifts in the arena of film and television, and had his first breakouts with Pollock and the Monk series. In addition to his screen music, Beal has written prodigiously for the concert hall, and his works have been performed by top-tier symphony orchestras and chorales around the world. He and his wife, Joan, recently paid their success forward by committing $2 million to the creation of The Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media at Eastman. “With film music,” Beal says, “so much of what we do is taking place in the subliminal, covert, emotive, dramatic space. I’m always trying to find that magic where the music has a life and a personality enough so that it’s doing something, but also empathetic enough to the scene so that it doesn’t kill it—and actually works with it in a way that magnifies everything else.”

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