Jonathan Beard, composer Jonathan Beard creates music for media and the concert stage. As a composer, his recent projects include scoring the feature film Frank vs. God; serving on the composing teams for video games Star Wars Battlefront and Star Wars Old Republic: Knights Of The Fallen Empire; and guest-composing for ABC's Once Upon A Time. For the stage, Jonathan co-composed the oratorio The Passion Of Anne Frank for the Los Angeles Master Chorale as part of their Voices Within residency, and his original theatre-score for Driving Miss Daisy received an NAACP Theatre Award nomination. He also recently completed the I-Park Foundation Artist Residency for his in-progress electroacoustic opera Cesare, Child Of Night.
One of the most sought-after orchestrators in Los Angeles, Jonathan values collaboration with other composers very deeply. He has worked closely with composers Junkie XL (Deadpool; The Dark Tower) and Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane; Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) for many years on numerous film, television, and video game projects, and more recently with composers including Abel Korzeniowski (Penny Dreadful), Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me 3) and Gordy Haab (Star Wars: Battlefront), among others.
One of the most sought-after orchestrators in Los Angeles, Jonathan values collaboration with other composers very deeply. He has worked closely with composers Junkie XL (Deadpool; The Dark Tower) and Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane; Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) for many years on numerous film, television, and video game projects, and more recently with composers including Abel Korzeniowski (Penny Dreadful), Heitor Pereira (Despicable Me 3) and Gordy Haab (Star Wars: Battlefront), among others.