Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer. Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York. His father, born in Italy, taught mathematics at Stony Brook University; his mother was Greek-American. He 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 Jerry Goldsmith. A few classical commissions and USC student fi... more

Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American film composer. Beltrami was born in Long Island, New York. His father, born in Italy, taught mathematics at Stony Brook University; his mother was Greek-American. He 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 Jerry Goldsmith. A few classical commissions and USC student films aside, Beltrami scored his first movie 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. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror/thriller and action genre, with the Scream sequels and hit movies such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Angel Eyes (2001), Joy Ride (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson), Blade 2 (2002),... less