Marco
Edward Beltrami was born in Long Island,
New York, on October 7, 1966, of Italian and Greek descent. He attended Ward
Melville High School, and afterwards, graduated from Brown University and
studied at the Yale School of Music, and then moved west to the USC Thornton
School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under legendary composer Jerry
Goldsmith.
A
few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his
first feature in 1994, the thriller “Death Match” for director Joe Coppolletta,
and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score
for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker “Scream”. He is best known for his work
scoring horror films such as “Mimic” (1997), “The Faculty” (1998), “Resident
Evil” (2002), “Don't Be Afraid of the Dark” (2011) and “The Woman in Black”
(2012). A long-time friend and collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami has scored
seven of the director's films including all four films in the Scream franchise
(1996–2011). Marco has been nominated for two Academy Awards for “3:10 to Yuma”
and “The Hurt Locker”, and won a Satellite Award for Best Original Score for “Soul
Surfer” (2011). He also scored Guillermo del Toro's 2004 supernatural superhero
film “Hellboy”, the 2013 superhero film “The Wolverine” and its sequel “Logan”.
Apart
from horror/thriller and action, he also scores certain independent films such
as “The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys” and Tommy Lee Jones' “The Three Burials
of Melquiades Estrada”. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for
the film “David and Lisa” in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical
wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing.
He
has composed the recent entries in the Die Hard saga, “Live Free or Die Hard”
and “A Good Day to Die Hard”, taking over from Michael Kamen from whom Beltrami
used some of the original themes from the previous three films due to Kamen's
death in 2003. Beltrami earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on
James Mangold's acclaimed 2007 western remake, “3:10 to Yuma”. Despite having
met a mixed critical response, he was also nominated, alongside Buck Sanders,
for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Original Score for his score to “The Hurt
Locker”. In 2011, he was met with critical praise and won a Satellite Award for
Best Original Score for his score to the drama film “Soul Surfer”. Beltrami
composed the soundtrack for Pierce Brosnan's 2014 spy film “November Man”.
Beltrami's
signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs
both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and
brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs.
Beltrami
has worked repeatedly with such directors as Alex Proyas, Len Wiseman, John
Moore, Wes Craven, and Guillermo del Toro. He has also worked with other
musicians, including Marilyn Manson (for “Resident Evil”).
It
was reported in October 2002 on Beltrami's official website that he had worked
on orchestral arrangements for "Thyme", "The General" and
"Leave Me Alone" from the then-unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese
Democracy. While none of those tracks appear on the final track listing of the
album, they were confirmed as being recorded during the sessions with a chance
of release in the future. However, he was credited officially for providing
arrangements on "Street of Dreams", "Madagascar",
"There Was a Time", "This I Love" and
"Prostitute". As a sidenote, "Chinese Democracy" is also
the name of a track on Beltrami's score for “3:10 to Yuma”.
BELTRAMI, Marco
(Marco
Edward Beltrami) [10/7/1966, Long
Island, New York, U.S.A. –
] – producer, composer, conductor,
arranger, orchestrator, songwriter, musician (piano, guitar, percussion).
The
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - 2004
The
Homesman - 2013
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