Jean-Pascal Beintus is a French musician. He started his musical training at the Conservatoire de Nice (double bass, piano and composition). A few years later, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, then in Paris. In 1983, he was appointed double bassist at the Opéra National de Lyon under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
In 1996, Kent Nagano, then Music Director of the Opéra National de Lyon, recognized his composition talents and commissioned his first symphonic work: a Concerto for Orchestra.
International orchestras
From then on, Beintus began composing for various orchestras. His works have been performed by: the Opéra National de Lyon Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker (Variations on a Gershwin Tune), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (Clarinet Concerto), the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Luna Tree), the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Hallé Orchestra Manchester, and the Russian National Orchestra. For Wolf Tracks, recorded by Kent Nagano with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev as narrators, he received a Grammy Award in 2003.
The Suite on the Little Prince, Beintus's great success — recorded at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra.21 Music · Quentin Hindley · Alexandra Conunova · Bryn Lewis
Cinema — the Desplat workshop
A great admirer of film music, Jean-Pascal dreamt of composing for cinema. He joined Alexandre Desplat's staff and assists him with orchestrations. He has collaborated on some great recent successes of the seventh art: Harry Potter, The King's Speech, Argo, The Monuments Men, Godzilla, Zero Dark Thirty, Valerian...
Beintus has composed original film music for Leonardo DiCaprio's documentaries (The 11th Hour, Carbon). On the television series side, he collaborated on the music for seasons 1 and 2 of the series Marseille, produced by Netflix. He composed the original music for Hippocrate aux enfers, a documentary by Michel Cymes, recorded by Renaud Capuçon and his friends (21 Music).
Recent works
Jean-Pascal Beintus composed a Fantaisie concertante for piano, trumpet and strings, premiered in June 2018 by the Orchestre d'Auvergne and recorded by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. A recording of the Suite on the Little Prince after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was released in June 2019 with Alexandra Conunova on violin, Bryn Lewis on harp and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Quentin Hindley (21 Music label).
