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Marco Beltrami Born October 7, 1966
Long Island, New YorkMarco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer.
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Life and career
Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York of Italian and Greek descent.[1] He attended Ward Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith.
A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first movie feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit movies such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004) and Red Eye (2005) featuring prominently in his resume. Apart from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such as The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing. One of his recent works include Live Free Or Die Hard, the fourth installment in the Die Hard tetralogy, for which Beltrami used some of Michael Kamen's original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's 2003 death. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, 3:10 to Yuma, and was recently nominated for the 2010 Academy Awards for his scoring of The Hurt Locker alongside Buck Sanders.
Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Collaborations
Beltrami has worked repeatedly with such directors as Len Wiseman, John Moore, Wes Craven, and Guillermo del Toro. He has also worked with other musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for Resident Evil).
It was even reported in October 2002 on Marco's official website that he had worked on orchestral arrangements for the songs "Thyme", "The General", "Leave Me Alone", and "Seven" off the then unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy. None of the tracks are confirmed for release on the album, but they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions, and may see release on one of Axl Rose's reported "sequels" if they are not released on Chinese Democracy. However, Marco was credited for providing arrangements on the songs "Street Of Dreams", "Madagascar", "There Was a Time", "This I Love" & "Prostitute". As a sidenote, 'Chinese Democracy' is also the name of a track on Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma.
Discography
Films
1990s
Year Title Director Studio Notes 1994 Death Match Joe Coppoletta Horseplay Productions Inc. 1995 The Whispering Gregory Gieras The Bicyclist Robert Stark Hickley Past Due Productions Short film 1996 Inhumanoid Victoria Muspratt Television film Scream Wes Craven Dimension Films 1997 Stranger in My Home Farhad Mann CBS Productions Television film Mimic Guillermo del Toro Dimension Films Scream 2 Wes Craven Dimension Films 1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later Steve Miner Dimension Films Uncredited 54 Mark Christopher Miramax Films David and Lisa Lloyd Kramer Harpo Productions Television film The Faculty Robert Rodriguez Dimension Films 1999 The Minus Man Hampton Fancher Artisan Entertainment Dybt vand Ole Bornedal Danmarks Radio Television film The Florentine Nick Stagliano American Zoetrope Television film Tuesdays with Morrie Mick Jackson Harpo Productions Television film Walking Across Egypt Nick Stagliano Mitchum Entertainment 2000s
2010s
Year Title Director Studio Notes Repo Men Miguel Sapochnik Universal Pictures Jonah Hex Jimmy Hayward Warner Bros. Pictures My Soul to Take Wes Craven Rogue Pictures 2011 The Sunset Limited Tommy Lee Jones Paramount Vantage Television film Soul Surfer Sean McNamara TriStar Pictures
FilmDistrictScream 4 Wes Craven Dimension Films Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Troy Nixey FilmDistrict
Miramax FilmsThe Thing Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Universal Pictures References
External links
- Personal website
- Marco Beltrami discography at MusicBrainz
- Marco Beltrami at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography at Movie Music UK
- Marco Beltrami interview at UnderScores : Musique de Film
Movies Soundtracks Crew Patrick Lussier (Director and Writer) · Joel Soisson (Producer and Writer) · W.K. Border (Producer) · Marco Beltrami (Music) · Kevin Kliesch (Music)Categories:- 1966 births
- Brown University alumni
- American people of Italian descent
- Living people
- Resident Evil composers
- Thornton School of Music alumni
- Ward Melville High School alumni
- Yale School of Music alumni
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