Principal Conductor of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, JOHN BEAL has conducted a wide variety of film scores and concerts with many of the world’s great musicians, from the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, the National Orchestra of Belgium and The City of Prague Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Malaysia and the Evergreen Symphony of Taiwan, as well as major symphony orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, and decades with the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Beal arranged and conducted orchestras on albums and in concerts and television with very diverse artists ranging from the world premiere of Rocketman: Live in Concert with Sir Elton John and Taron Egerton, the world premiere of Chicago Live in Concert, the world premiere of Respect Live in Concert, the world premiere orchestral concert of Electronica DJ Deadmau5, the world premiere of Serengeti Live with Lola Lennox, the U.S. concert debut of Olivia Newton-John, and television and records with singers Gladys Knight, Ella Fitzgerald, The Carpenters, and B.B. King. Mr. Beal created music for 45 theatrical features, television films and documentaries, 26 major network series or specials, 35 national advertisers, and his works appear on more than 30 recordings. With Walt Disney Imagineering, he produced music for Disneyland and Walt Disney World theme parks, and named by the New York Times as the pioneer of original scores for movie trailers, internationally recognized for composing original scores for the marketing of over 2,000 major studio projects, including Star Wars, Titanic, Forrest Gump, Aladdin, Braveheart, The Matrix, and The Last Samurai.