In 2015, McCreary was nominated for an Emmy for the pilot Outlander episode "Sassenach" (S01E01 ).
McCreary has composed the soundtrack for each of the first five seasons of Outlander, with the main title being sung by his long time collaborator and partner, Raya Yarbrough. It accurately features an instrument of the period in the form of the hurdy-gurdy. The opening title sequence for Black Sails was composed by McCreary with a backing sea shanty inspired theme. In a post on his blog on July 25, 2010, 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. In July 2010, he received his first Emmy nomination for the Human Target main title. 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.
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The series has the distinction of having one of the largest orchestras on television.
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The pilot episode and main theme score had been recorded with a full orchestra. McCreary provided the score for the series Human Target (based on the comic book of the same name). McCreary composed for the Battlestar Galactica prequel series Caprica and Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome. The soundtracks for seasons two and three ranked amongst 's Top 30 Music Sales on their first days of release. To date, six Battlestar Galactica soundtrack albums have been released, and have garnered a great deal of critical acclaim and commercial success. He worked on the series until it reached its conclusion in 2009, scoring over 70 episodes. When the show was picked up, Gibbs opted not to devote full-time to the regular series' production, and McCreary became the sole composer. In 2003, McCreary worked under primary composer Richard Gibbs on the three-hour miniseries which served as a pilot for the reimagined series of Battlestar Galactica. Main articles: Music of Battlestar Galactica (reimagining) and Music of Caprica McCreary went to USC Thornton School of Music at the encouragement of Elmer Bernstein becoming his protégé and graduating in 2002 from Screen Scoring.Ĭareer Television Battlestar Galactica and Caprica Their collaboration allowed for the complete score to be available as a soundtrack album for the first time in 40 years. He studied under the renowned film score composer Elmer Bernstein during which time he reconstructed and reorchestrated Bernstein's 1963 score for Kings of the Sun. He is a classically trained pianist and self-taught accordionist.
He graduated from Bellingham High School in 1997.
Bear has directed and produced several music videos for Brendan's band, "Young Beautiful in a Hurry". His brother, Brendan McCreary, is also a musician. He is the son of author Laura Kalpakian and professor Jay McCreary of University of Hawaii at Manoa. McCreary spent most of his formative years in Bellingham, Washington.
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