Visconti Arts Announces Signing of Composer Jeff Beal

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Visconti Arts Announces Signing of Composer Jeff Beal

Five-time Emmy Award winner and gifted musical storyteller joins the roster as he prepares to conduct his new score to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

New York, NY (November 9, 2026) Visconti Arts, a leading agency representing visionary talent across the performing arts, proudly announces the signing of composer Jeff Beal to its international roster. Visconti Arts represents Beal for worldwide and general management.

Beal is a composer who leads his own music from the podium. He made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting his score for the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and he has led the National Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. On March 5, 2027, he will conduct the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and members of the Eastman Philharmonia in his groundbreaking new score to Fritz Lang’s silent epic Metropolis, performed live as the film screens at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The evening marks 100 years since the film’s 1927 premiere and brings together jazz, symphonic writing, and cinematic storytelling in a single reimagined concert experience.

Beal is a five-time Emmy Award winner with nineteen Emmy nominations. His scores for House of Cards, Rome, Monk, and Carnivale have shaped some of television’s most memorable storytelling, and his film work includes Pollock, Appaloosa, Blackfish, and The Queen of Versailles. His concert music carries that narrative instinct to the stage. The St. Louis Symphony commissioned his violin concerto Body in Motion, premiered by Kelly Hall-Tompkins under Leonard Slatkin, and his commissioned works have also been performed by the Pacific, Munich, Detroit, and Rochester symphony orchestras. His choral and vocal writing has drawn commissions from the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the Eric Whitacre Singers.

Beal moves freely between worlds, drawing on his roots as a jazz trumpeter and recording artist and on a lifetime of orchestral and media scoring. He has also turned to the solo piano. His New York Études, released in 2024 and continued in a second volume, grew out of a deeply personal practice. Beal has described composing and playing at the piano as a meditative ritual that sustains his well-being, and he and his wife, soprano Joan Sapiro Beal, support the Music and Medicine initiative at the University of Rochester. The études extend his conversation about the relationship between music and healing.

Jeff Beal joins a community of other adventurous and highly active composers on the Visconti Arts roster, including Viet Cuong, Tobias Picker, Brittany J. Green, and Sphinx Prize-winning composer and double bassist Kebra-Seyoun Charles.

“Visconti Arts is thrilled to welcome one of America’s most gifted musical storytellers to our roster,” said founder Dan Visconti. “Creating at the intersection of symphonic music, contemporary media scoring, and jazz improvisation, Jeff has a musical voice that refuses to be defined by genres or limited by stylistic boundaries. His upcoming engagements conducting his groundbreaking new score to Fritz Lang’s silent epic Metropolis confirm his mastery of musical cinema and his unique ability to reinvigorate the concert experience. Most of all, we’re deeply grateful for the way Jeff shares his own perspective on the relationship between music and healing, and for how he empowers and inspires others.”

Jeff Beal, Composer

A composer of “genre-defying musical fluidity,” Jeff Beal began his career as a jazz trumpeter and recording artist before turning to composition, studying with Christopher Rouse at the Eastman School of Music. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is based in Los Angeles.

Beal has won five Emmy Awards, including two for his score to Netflix’s House of Cards. His concert commissions include works for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Smuin Ballet, and guitarist Jason Vieaux, and Kent Nagano premiered his Alternate Route for trumpet and orchestra with Beal as soloist. He is a Steinway Artist.

Visconti Arts serves as worldwide and general management for Jeff Beal, please contact Dan Visconti dan@viscontiarts.com.

Launched in 2024 with a unique roster of adventurous composers, conductors, soloists, and special projects, Visconti Arts serves the unique management needs of artists who are re-imagining rather than simply recreating.

The Visconti Arts roster includes dreamers, musical creatives, citizen-artists, authors, and speakers who are sought after for their impact across disciplines. While they come from many different backgrounds, our artists are unified as changemakers who embrace the transformative power of art to heal and empower communities.

For more information on Visconti Arts, please visit https://www.viscontiarts.com/