Christophe Beck

Biography

Jean-Christophe Beck (born November 30, 1972) is a Canadian television and film score composer and conductor. He is the brother of pianist Chilly Gonzales.

He is best known for his collaborations with Disney and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Frozen (2013) and its 2019 sequel, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as well as its TV miniseries WandaVision (2021) and Hawkeye (2021) for Marvel Studios, and Free Guy (2021) for 20th Century Studios, as well as the company’s 100th anniversary logo.

He also composed the music for the 2023 DC Extended Universe film Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

He is also noted for winning an Emmy Award in 1998 for his work on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as well as for composing the soundtrack of The Hangover (2009).

Beck started piano lessons at five, and by eleven he was learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing with his first band. Beck attended Crescent School where he studied piano, saxophone, and drums, and wrote many '80s love ballads.

While studying music at Yale, Beck wrote two musicals with his brother Jason, as well as an opera based on “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe.

Upon graduation, Beck moved to Los Angeles to attend USC's film scoring program, where he studied with Jerry Goldsmith. A personal recommendation from Buddy Baker, then head of the USC Music Department, led to his first assignment for a Canadian TV series called White Fang.

Several TV series later, he was asked to score the second season of WB Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beck received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for his score to the Buffy episode, “Becoming, Part 1.”

In 2000, the cheerleading comedy Bring It On launched Beck's film career. His credits include Under the Tuscan Sun, Edge of Tomorrow, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Pitch Perfect, and the Hangover trilogy.

More recently, Chris scored the Oscar- and Grammy-winning animated film Frozen, and several installments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). At the D23 Expo in 2022, it was announced that Beck had composed a new arrangement of "When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany Disney's 100th-anniversary logo, conducted by Tim Davies, which debuted ahead of the film Strange World.