Christophe Beck

Christophe Beck is a Canadian composer who has written the scores for many popular television shows and feature films since his debut in 1993 with the TV show 'White Fang'. His most famous works include themes for 58 episodes of the popular sci-fi show 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (1997-2001), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding music composition for a series in 1998. He earned another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for the 2002 episode titled 'Once More, With Feeling'. He scored the Disney movie 'Frozen', which was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award as Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The release which features songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, went to number two on Billboard's Kid Albums Chart in 2015.

Born in Montreal, the brother of crossover classical pianist Chilly Gonzales, he studied music at Yale University and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music and with Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith and Emmy and Grammy Award winner Mike Post. He had stints with the groups Spizzwinks and Whiffenpoofs and wrote music for TV shows including the family drama 'Second Noah' (1996), crime series 'Two' (1996), sitcom 'George & Leo' (1997), action shows 'F/X: The Series' (1996), 'Spy Game' (1997) and 'Angel' (1999) and the legal series 'The Practice' (1999).

His feature film credits include 'Just Married' (2003) starring Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy, two 'Pink Panther' films, two 'Muppets' films, two 'Hot Tub Time Machine' films, three 'Hangover' films, 'RED' (2010), 'Tower Heist' (2011), 'Edge of Tomorrow' (2014) and 'Get Hard' (2015). His 2018 scores were for the super-hero adventure 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' starring Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly and the Coen Brothers comedy spoof 'Holmes & Watson' starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Ralph Fiennes.