Artist's Development
Jean-Pascal Beintus
Jean-Pascal Beintus was born in Toulouse on 1966. He grows up in Nice and starts his musical education at the local Conservatoire (Double bass, piano and composition) and joins the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique de Paris and Lyon. In 1983, he is appointed bass player at the Opera National de Lyon under Sir John-Elliot Gardine. Fond of his orchestral job, discussing with his colleagues and conductors, in parallel he continues to compose and proposes a Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra (Samskara).
In 1996, Kent Nagano, Opéra de Lyon’s Music Director, decides to promote Jean-Pascal’s works and commissions him several scores for his seasons. A new road is open for Beintus and he decides to start an official career of composer. Until now, he composes for the Opéra de Lyon, Berliner Philharmoniker (Variations on a Gershwin’s tune for piano duet and orchestra), Hallé Orchestra Manchester (Couleurs cuivres, concerto for brass quintet and orchestra), Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Luna tree), Accademia de Santa Cecilia Roma (Concerto for Clarinet – dedicated to Alessandro Carbonare), Deutsches Symphony Orchester Berlin (Le Petit Prince, Suite), Russian National Orchestra (Wolf Tracks – recorded on Pentatone by B.Clinton and M.Gorbatchev – Grammy Award).
Since his childhood, big fan on John Williams, Jean-Pascal dreams to compose for movies and he fills his dream joining Alexandre Desplat’ staff as first assistant and main orchestrator. With Alexandre Desplat, Jean-Pascal works on all the main last decade’s international blockbusters : Harry Potter, King’s Speech, Argo, Imitation game, Monument’s name, Zero Dark Thirty, Tree of life, etc.). Beintus composes his original movie soundtracks for Leonardo di Caprio’s documentaries (11th hour and Carbon).
Music&Arts's Mission
- Consulting Jean-Pascal Beintus on the development of his orchestral music projects and on his musical catalog besides film music.
- Projet to record the Concerto for brass quintet and orchestra – the wind ensemble version- with trumpeter Romain Leleu and his quintet.
- Propagation and diffusion of concert music for violin, harp and chamber orchestra, based on Saint-Exupéry‘s Le Petit Prince.