Marco Beltrami - blockbuster film composer

Marco Beltrami studied at Brown University before entering the Yale School of Music on a scholarship. He then studied for a time in Venice under the Italian master Luigi Nono and also via a fellowship with Jerry Goldsmith. He is one of the younger generation of composers who has been quite prolific in recent years on many summer blockbusters, and has found himself scoring frequently in the modern horror or thriller genres. His breakthrough was probably the music for "Scream" where he sought inspiration from another Italian composer Ennio Morricone. As well as the original Scream and its two sequels, Beltrami has also scored for the horror films Mimic, The Faculty and Scary Movie 2.

Having served an apprenticeship on these and a number of high profile sequels of action, sci-fi and effects films (Terminator 3 and Blade 2), Beltrami then secured the rewarding task of scoring eagerly awaited film adaptations inspired by the book "I Robot" and by the comic strip "Hellboy". Beltrami has now proven his versatility on the more subtle score for Tommy Lee Jones directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The original "The Scream" soundtrack can be found at: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, and Hellboy is available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

Films by Marco Beltrami:

• Halloween H20 - additional music
• Scream 1, 2, 3 - making and cementing the composer's reputation
• Mimic
• The Faculty
• The Watcher
• Scary Movie 2
• Terminator 3 - following in the footsteps of Brad Fiedel and again (like Hellboy) handing over to Danny Elfman for the next in the series
• Resident Evil - quite Hardcore sounding with Marilyn Manson
• Crow 3: The Salvation - taking over from Graeme Revell who scored the first two Crow movies
• Blade 2 - the original "Blade" was by Mark Isham
• Hellboy - based on the comic book, the music includes sounds from a Theremin - the sequel was scored by Danny Elfman
• I Robot - Beltrami includes a number of electronic effects on this Will Smith movie based on the Robot books of Isaac Asimov
• The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - the film won awards for director Tommy Lee Jones at Cannes in 2005, and the soundtrack also features a number of Tex-Mex popular songs
• The Omen - a homage to Jerry Goldsmith's original with some thematic references
• Live Free and Die Hard - with all the required action music and known as "Die Hard 4.0" in the UK
• 3:10 to Yuma - again Beltrami demonstrates an affinity for Westerns and a Morricone-like presence in this remake of the original scored by Dimitri Tiompkin
• The Invisible
• The Eye
• Max Payne
• The Hurt Locker (with Buck Sanders) - has a strong focus on hard dark electronic sounds to accompany the army bomb squad working in Iraq
• Knowing
• Repo Men - with occasional collaborator iZLER receiving an additional music credit