Jean-Pascal Beintus
Composer and orchestrator, from the Opéra de Lyon to the London Symphony Orchestra, from Kent Nagano to film: 21 Music brings his work to record.
Press
« Quelle merveilleuse pièce, quelle découverte ! »
« encore un album magistral en 2025 ! »
Crescendo (Bertrand Balmitgère) — Piano, Trumpet & Strings (Fantaisie concertante, création mondiale ; Romain Leleu, Frank Braley, Orchestre royal de chambre de Wallonie) · 14 February 2025 · Son 10 · Livret 9 · Répertoire 9 · Interprétation 10
« a fairy-tale atmosphere of dreamlike beauty »
« The soulful playing of Alexandra Conunova, Bryn Lewis and members of the London Symphony Orchestra is top-class, as is the sound quality »
Pizzicato (Remy Franck) — Suite de concert sur Le Petit Prince (Alexandra Conunova, Bryn Lewis, membres du London Symphony Orchestra, Quentin Hindley) · 2 July 2019
Biography
Born in Toulouse in 1966, Jean-Pascal Beintus grew up in Nice and trained at the Nice conservatoire and at the national conservatoires of Lyon and Paris. In 1984 he became a double bassist at the Opéra national de Lyon under John Eliot Gardiner.
In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, commissioned a concerto for orchestra from him. Works followed for the Berlin Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Shoka, with Diana Damrau), the Russian National Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra (The Little Prince). Wolf Tracks, recorded by Kent Nagano with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, won a Grammy Award.
As a film orchestrator he has worked on more than seventy films, including Harry Potter, The King's Speech, Argo, The Imitation Game and The Shape of Water. His Fantaisie concertante for trumpet, piano and strings was premiered by Frank Braley, Romain Leleu and the Orchestre d'Auvergne.
Releases with 21 Music · 2 releases
Piano, trumpet & stringsFrank Braley, Romain Leleu & Orchestre royal de chambre de Wallonie
Suite de concert sur le Petit Prince d'après Antoine de Saint-ExupéryJean-Pascal Beintus; Alexandra Conunova, Bryn Lewis, Members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Quentin Hindley