Marco Beltrami

Marco Beltrami is, to me, one of the most underrated names in modern film scoring. The Scream scores alone earned him my respect, but what impresses me is the range, jumping from horror to 3:10 to Yuma's Western textures to the near-silence of A Quiet Place, where the music had to almost disappear. That last one is the kind of restraint a lot of composers never learn. Fellow Brown University alum to Bess Armstrong, oddly enough. I tend to notice his work without noticing his name, which is honestly the highest compliment you can pay a film composer. He serves the picture first.

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Name (English)

Marco Beltrami

Name (Japanese)

マルコ・ベルトラミ

Reading

まるこ・べるとらみ

Born

October 7, 1966 (age 60)

Origin

Long Island, New York, United States

Occupation

composer / film score composer / conductor / musician / bandleader

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

High school

Ward Melville High School

University

Brown University

• Official sitehttps://marcobeltrami.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/marcobeltrami.music/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Beltrami
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465754

Tags

• New York
• composer
• film score composer
• conductor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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