Bear McCreary
Emmy Award winning composer Bear McCreary was first launched into pop culture with his groundbreaking score to the hit series Battlestar Galactica, that was lauded by Variety as “the most innovative music on TV today.” It “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: a sci-fi score like no other” (NPR). Io9.com ranked McCreary one of the Ten Best Science Fiction Composers of All Time, and recently WIRED Magazine declared him one of only five “Secret Weapons” of the television industry. McCreary was recently voted “Composers’ Choice Composer of the Year – Television” by his peers in ASCAP, the first award of its kind. Bear has conducted orchestral performances of his music throughout North America and Europe, appearing at Fimucité in Tenerife, and the International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain. In July 2014, his music was performed by the L.A. Philharmonic and L.A. Master Choraleat the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Attending the prestigious Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, Bear completed degrees in composition and recording arts. However, his professional training came from film music legend Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mocking Bird). Bear was one of Bernstein’s select protégés, and learned the tools of the trade working with and orchestrating for the maestro. Bear spent his childhood immersed in film and television music; he is delighted now to contribute back to the genres that inspired him.
Known for
SoundBirthday
February 17, 1979Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
60Place of birth
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USACast credits
Crew credits
Rest Stop
Original Music ComposerBattlestar Galactica: Razor
Original Music ComposerBattlestar Galactica: The Plan
Original Music ComposerEuropa Report
Original Music ComposerBattlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
MusicWrong Turn 2: Dead End
MusicDigging Up the Marrow
Original Music ComposerEverly
Original Music ComposerKnights of Badassdom
Original Music ComposerThe Boy
Original Music ComposerAngry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
MusicRebel in the Rye
Original Music ComposerUnrest
Original Music Composer, ConductorColossal
Original Music Composer, OrchestratorRevolt
Original Music ComposerHappy Death Day
Original Music ComposerPeriphery, Texas
MusicVictor Crowley
Music Score ProducerThe Cloverfield Paradox
MusicTau
MusicHell Fest
Original Music Composer