Bear McCreary
Sound
🎂 1979-02-17
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.
Cast credits(5)
Sound (94)
Original Music Composer
2010
Music Producer
2010
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2022
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2011
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2014
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2019
Music
2013
Original Music Composer
2004
Main Title Theme Composer
2022
Original Music Composer
2020
Music
2006
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2013
Main Title Theme Composer
2023
Original Music Composer
2014
Original Music Composer
2014
Original Music Composer
2022
Music
2008
Original Music Composer
2008
Original Music Composer
2013
Original Music Composer
2010
Music
2010
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2016
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2017
Original Music Composer
2024
Main Title Theme Composer
2024
Original Music Composer
2025
Original Music Composer
2021
Music Score Producer
2021
Original Music Composer
2019
Music
2008
Music
2014
Music
2012
Original Music Composer
2019
Original Music Composer
2007
Original Music Composer
2023
Original Music Composer
2016
Original Music Composer
2025
Original Music Composer
2022
Original Music Composer
2017
Orchestrator
2017
Original Music Composer
2024
Original Music Composer
2017
Music
2024
Original Music Composer
2022
Music Score Producer
2022
Original Music Composer
2018
Original Music Composer
2020
Original Music Composer
2020
Original Music Composer
2019
Original Music Composer
2016
Original Music Composer
2011
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2020
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2023
Original Music Composer
2019
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2020
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2019
Original Music Composer
2010
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2016
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2018
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2019
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2013
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2018
Original Music Composer
2019
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2018
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2017
Original Music Composer
2014
Original Music Composer
2007
Original Music Composer
2017
Music Score Producer
2017
Original Music Composer
2006
Original Music Composer
2009
Original Music Composer
2017
Music
2022
Original Music Composer
2018
Music
2020
Original Music Composer
2013
Original Music Composer
2011
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2024
Original Music Composer
2018
Original Music Composer
2015
Music
2022
Original Music Composer
2012
Conductor
2017
Original Music Composer
2017
Original Music Composer
2014
Original Music Composer
2012
Music Score Producer
2023
Music
2020
Music
2017
Music
2019
Music
2024
Music
2018
Music
2002
Music
2024