# Jean-Pascal Beintus

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'''Jean-Pascal Beintus''' (born 1966) is a French composer.

Beintus was born in [Toulouse](/source/Toulouse). He studied [double bass](/source/double_bass) and composition at the conservatories of [Nice](/source/Nice), [Lyon](/source/Lyon) and [Paris](/source/Paris) during the 1980s. When [Sir John Eliot Gardiner](/source/John_Eliot_Gardiner) created the [Lyon Opéra Orchestra](/source/Op%C3%A9ra_de_Lyon) in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding [double bass](/source/double_bass) player. His first work, ''Samskara'', was for double bass and [chamber orchestra](/source/chamber_orchestra).

In 1996 [Kent Nagano](/source/Kent_Nagano), then [music director](/source/music_director) of the [Opéra de Lyon](/source/Op%C3%A9ra_de_Lyon), recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus's talents as composer and began to commission works from him: a concerto for orchestra, a concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Since then, he has written music for nearly every type of ensemble, [concert hall](/source/concert_hall) and film. He composed a stage music for Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Recent commissions have come from the [Berlin Philharmonic](/source/Berlin_Philharmonic) (''He's Got Rhythm: Homage to [George Gershwin](/source/George_Gershwin)''), the [Russian National Orchestra](/source/Russian_National_Orchestra) (''[Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf](/source/Wolf_Tracks_and_Peter_and_the_Wolf)''), the [Manchester Hallé Orchestra](/source/Hall%C3%A9_Orchestra) (''Couleurs Cuivres''), the [Berkeley Symphony](/source/Berkeley_Symphony) (''Berkeley Images'', ''Luna Tree'' and ''Bremen Town Musicians''), the [Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra](/source/Philippine_Philharmonic_Orchestra) (''Kobe Symphony'', which was featured on [David Benoit](/source/David_Benoit_(musician))'s 2005 release, ''Orchestral Stories'', on Peak Records), [Orchestre de Paris](/source/Orchestre_de_Paris) (''Cordes et Lames''), the [State of California](/source/State_of_California) (''Manzanar: An American Story''), the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) (''Nature Suite''), the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, (Shoka, Diana Damrau), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, (concerto for clarinet), the [Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin](/source/Deutsches_Symphonie-Orchester_Berlin), and the London Symphony Orchestra, (''[Le Petit Prince](/source/Le_Petit_Prince)'').

Beintus's film work includes the original score of the [Leonardo DiCaprio](/source/Leonardo_DiCaprio) film ''[The 11th Hour](/source/The_11th_Hour_(2007_film))'', as well as orchestrating [Alexandre Desplat](/source/Alexandre_Desplat)'s scores for ''[Syriana](/source/Syriana)'' and [Golden Globe](/source/Golden_Globe)-winning score of ''[The Painted Veil](/source/The_Painted_Veil_(2006_film))'', and also ''[The Queen](/source/The_Queen_(2006_film))'', ''[Fantastic Mr. Fox](/source/Fantastic_Mr._Fox_(film))'', ''The Imitation Game'', "[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1](/source/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows%3A_Part_1)", "[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2](/source/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows%3A_Part_2)", "[Jurassic World Rebirth](/source/Jurassic_World_Rebirth)" and ''Godzilla, The Shape of Water''.

A recording of Jean-Pascal Beintus's "Wolf Tracks" featuring [Bill Clinton](/source/Bill_Clinton), [Mikhail Gorbachev](/source/Mikhail_Gorbachev) and [Sophia Loren](/source/Sophia_Loren) as narrators received a 2003 [Grammy Award](/source/Grammy_Award).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/46th-annual-grammy-awards|title=46th Annual GRAMMY Awards|date=28 November 2017}}</ref> [Antonio Banderas](/source/Antonio_Banderas) narrated the Spanish version, released in 2007.

His recent projects are the original music of the French TV Star [Michel Cymès](/source/Michel_Cym%C3%A8s)'s documentary based on his book Hippocrates in the Underworld, performed by Renaud Capuçon, and a Fantaisie Concertante for piano, trumpet and orchestra premiered in June 2018 by the Orchestra of Auvergne.

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