JEREMY BECK (b. 1960) is a dramatic and lyrical composer of works for varying orchestral, chamber and vocal forces. His most recent CD, Never Final, Never Gone, features chamber music (innova-696). Reviewing this CD in 2009, MusicWeb-International observed: "Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today. ... [Here is] an original voice celebrating music. Without self-consciousness, without paralyzing abstraction, Beck reminds us that music is movement, physically and emotionally."

In 2004, Wave -- a Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra CD devoted to his music -- was also released on the innova label (innova-612). Reviews of this CD describe Beck's Sinfonietta for string orchestra as "harmonically inventive, thoroughly engaging ... sinewy and gorgeous" and Death of a Little Girl with Doves for soprano and orchestra as displaying "imperious melodic confidence [and] fluent emotional command."

In 2009, Opera America chose to include an excerpt from his latest opera Review in its annual New Music Sampler in Houston. His opera The Biddle Boys and Mrs. Soffel was named by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as one of the Top Ten Cultural Events in Pittsburgh for the year 2001, while the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review hailed the work at its premiere as "superb ... more successful compositionally ... than many new works seen at major opera houses." Another of his operas, The Highway, was presented by New York City Opera as a part of that company's Showcasing American Composers series (now VOX) in May of 2000; at the premiere of this opera at Yale, the New Haven Register declared that Beck's "handling of dramatic relationships and superimposed time was masterful."

Beck has earned awards, grants and honors from the American Composers Orchestra, the Arts Councils of California, Iowa and Kentucky, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers Forum, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Millay Colony for the Arts, Meet the Composer, Wellesley Composers Conference, Oregon Bach Festival, and the American Music Center.

Beck holds degrees in composition from the Yale School of Music, Duke University and the Mannes College of Music, as well as a J.D. from the University of Louisville. He currently resides with his wife and son in Louisville, Kentucky.