Bear McCreary is a degreed graduate of the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music (in 'Composition and Recording Arts'). Bear McCreary was one of a small and select group of proteges of the late, many-honored film composer Elmer Bernstein . Although he is now firmly in the mainstream of film composition, many of McCreary's earliest soundtrack-music compositions were for independent motion picture productions. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Louis Rugani

Worked for and studied with film music legend Elmer Bernstein for nearly a decade, including reconstructing and re-orchestrating his long-lost score for Könige der Sonne (1963) from the original pencil manuscripts. Son of Laura Kalpakian . Brother of Brendan McCreary .