Jean-Christophe Beck (born in 1968) is a Canadian television and film score composer. He is best known for his collaborations with

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and its subsidiaries, which include composing the soundtracks of '' The Muppets'' (2011) and '' Muppets Most Wanted'' (2014), '' Frozen'' (2013) and '' Frozen 2'' (2019), the

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films '' Ant-Man'' (2015), '' Ant-Man and the Wasp'' (2018), and '' Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'' (2023) as well as the TV miniseries '' WandaVision'' (2021), '' Hawkeye'' (2021), and '' Agatha All Along'' (2024) for

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, and '' Free Guy'' (2021) for

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, as well as Disney's 100th anniversary logo. He composed the scores for several of Shawn Levy's films, including '' Big Fat Liar'' (2002), '' Just Married'' (2003), '' Cheaper by the Dozen'' (2003), ''

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'' (2006), '' The Internship'' (2013), and '' Free Guy'' (2021). Notably, he won an

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in 1998 for his work on the television series '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. He is also known for composing the scores of the film series ''

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'' (2009-2013). He is the older brother of composer, pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales.

Early life

Beck started piano lessons at the age of five, and by the time he turned eleven, he was learning

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songs by ear and performing with his first band, Newton Talks, who licensed a song to '' Hot Tub Time Machine''. Beck attended Crescent School where he studied piano, saxophone, and drums. He wrote two musicals while studying music at

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Career

Upon graduation, Beck moved to

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to attend USC's film scoring program, where he studied with

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. A personal recommendation from Buddy Baker, then head of the USC Music Department, led to his first assignment for a Canadian TV series called ''White Fang''. Several TV series later, he was asked to score the second season of the WB Network show '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Beck received an

for Outstanding Music Composition for his score to the ''Buffy'' episode " Becoming, Part 1". In 2000, the cheerleading comedy ''Bring It On'' launched Beck's film career. His credits include ''Under the Tuscan Sun'', '' Edge of Tomorrow'', '' Crazy, Stupid, Love'', '' Pitch Perfect'', and the ''Hangover'' trilogy. More recently, Beck scored the Oscar- and Grammy-winning animated film ''Frozen'', and several installments in the

(MCU). At the D23 Expo in 2022, it was announced that Beck had composed a new arrangement of " When You Wish Upon a Star" to accompany

's 100th anniversary

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, conducted by Tim Davies, which debuted ahead of the film '' Strange World''. Beck works out of his studio in

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