Jonathan Beard

Jonathan Beard
Biography

Jonathan Beard is a film music composer who wrote music to Heavenquest: A Pilgrim’s Progress (2020), Persephone Speaks: The Forgotten Women of Bosnia (2020), What Still Remains (2018), Manny in Real Life (2014), Star Wars: The Old Republic – Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015).

Jonathan Beard creates music for media and the concert stage. As a composer, recent diverse projects include his electroacoustic opera Cesare, Child of Night, the film scores to What Still Remains, Heavenquest, and Frank vs. God; and De tu puño y letra, an electronic video-sound collaboration with iconic artist Suzanne Lacy. He has served on the composing teams for video games such as Star Wars Battlefront I and II, and guest-composed 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.

Bio from https://www.jonathanbeard.com/