Bear McCreary born February 17, is an American composer of film, television, and video game scores. His work includes the scores of the television series Battlestar Galactica , Agents of S. McCreary was raised in Bellingham, Washington. His brother, Brendan McCreary, is also a musician. Bear has directed and produced several music videos for Brendan's band, Young Beautiful in a Hurry. He is a classically trained pianist and self-taught accordionist.
Their collaboration allowed for the complete score to be available as a soundtrack album for the first time in 40 years. In , McCreary worked under primary composer Richard Gibbs on the three-hour miniseries which served as a pilot for the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica. When the show was picked up, Gibbs opted not to devote full-time to the regular series' production, and McCreary became the sole composer. He worked on the series until it reached its conclusion in , scoring over 70 episodes.
To date, six Battlestar Galactica soundtrack albums have been released, and have garnered a great deal of critical acclaim [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and commercial success. The soundtracks for seasons two and three ranked amongst Amazon. McCreary provided the score for the series Human Target based on the comic book of the same name. The pilot episode and main theme score had been recorded with a full orchestra.
The score to the finale of season one, "Christopher Chance", used the largest orchestra ever assembled for episodic television, and he took the opportunity to rerecord the main title theme with a new orchestration with this larger ensemble. In July , he received his first Emmy nomination for the Human Target main title. In a post on his blog on July 25, , McCreary announced the new creative leadership brought in for season two had not asked him to return for it, and he would be leaving the series.
The opening title sequence for Black Sails was composed by McCreary with a backing sea shanty inspired theme. It accurately features an instrument of the period in the form of the hurdy-gurdy. McCreary has composed the score for all seasons of Outlander. The main title was sung by his long time collaborator and partner, Raya Yarbrough. This is a continuation of the Metalocalypse universe following the band Dethklok.
