Jean-Pascal Beintus

When Sir John Eliot Gardiner created the Lyon Opéra Orchestra in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding double bass player.

He composed a stage music for Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Recent commissions have come from the Berlin Philharmonic (He's Got Rhythm: Homage to George Gershwin), the Russian National Orchestra (Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf), the Manchester Hallé Orchestra (Couleurs Cuivres), the Berkeley Symphony (Berkeley Images, Luna Tree and Bremen Town Musicians), the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (Kobe Symphony, which was featured on David Benoit's 2005 release, Orchestral Stories, on Peak Records), Orchestre de Paris (Cordes et Lames), the State of California (Manzanar: An American Story), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Nature Suite), the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, (Shoka, Diana Damrau), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, (concerto for clarinet), the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the London Symphony Orchestra, (Le Petit Prince).

A recording of Jean-Pascal Beintus's "Wolf Tracks" featuring Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren as narrators received a 2003 Grammy Award.

His recent projects are the original music of the French TV Star Michel Cymès's documentary based on his book Hippocrates in the Underworld, performed by Renaud Capuçon, and a Fantaisie Concertante for piano, trumpet and orchestra premiered in June 2018 by the Orchestra of Auvergne.