Hal Beckett

Hal Foxton Beckett is a Canadian composer and music producer.

Hal Beckett
Born	Halifax, Nova Scotia
Citizenship	Canadian
Occupation(s)	Composer; conductor; sound designer
Years active	1992–present

Career

Beckett began his musical studies in Halifax, and later moved to Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia to study composition and electronic music. He helmed the recording of one hundred and ten Olympic national anthems to be used in the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[1] He has also written hours of music for television shows, films, and more.

Works

Films

• Everest: Climb For Hope (1992)
• Out of Bounds (1996)
• Two of Hearts (1999)
• Poison (2001)
• Betraying Reason (2003)
• Last Chance Café (2006)
• A Daughter's Conviction (2006)
• Imaginary Playmate (2006)
• To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
• Cleaverville (2007)
• Second Sight (2007)
• Nobody (2008)
• Held Hostage (2009)
• Final Storm (2010)
• Battle of the Bulbs (2010)
• Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray (2011)
• Notes From the Heart Healer (2012)
• The Wishing Tree (2012)
• After All These Years (2012)
• Blind Detective (2013)
• Hats Off to Christmas! (2013)
• Happy Face Killer (2014)
• Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)
• Surprised by Love (2015)
• 'Tis The Season For Love (2015)
• The Hollow (2016)
• All Yours (2016)
• All Anything or Love (2016)
• Operation Christmas (2016)
• Harvest Love (2017)
• A Harvest Wedding (2017)
• Royal New Year's Eve (2017)
• The Sweetest Heart (2018)
• Reunited at Christmas (2018)
• Every Day Is Christmas (2018)
• In God I Trust (2018)
• Bottled With Love (2019)
• Sweet Mountain Christmas (2019)
• Picture a Perfect Christmas (2019)
• Christmas at the Plaza (2019)
• Christmas at Dollywood (2019)
• A Family Christmas Gift (2019)
• A Valentine's Match (2020)
• Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mysteries (2020)
• Wedding Every Weekend (2020)
• You're Bacon Me Crazy (2020)
• The Christmas Yule Blog (2020)
• A Clüsterfünke Christmas (2021)
• A Lot Like Christmas (2021)
• Mid-Love Crisis (2022)
• In Merry Measure (2022)
• Christmas Class Reunion (2022)
• When Christmas Was Young (2022)

Television

• Madison (1993) (1 episode)
• Police Academy: The Series (1998) (1 episode)
• Yvon of the Yukon (1999–2004)
• Hollywood Off-Ramp (2000)
• Call of the Wild (2000) (11 episodes)
• What About Mimi? (2000)
• Yakkity Yak (2002)
• Being Ian (2004)
• Pucca (2006–2008) (78 episodes; wrote the theme song)
• About a Girl (2007–2008) (13 episodes)
• Edgar & Ellen (2007–2008) (7 episodes)
• Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy (2007–2008) (16 episodes)
• Kid vs. Kat (2008–2011) (33 episodes; wrote the theme song)
• League of Super Evil (2009–2011) (50 episodes)
• Rated A for Awesome (2011) (27 episodes)
• Voltron Force (2011–2012) (19 episodes)
• Signed, Sealed, Delivered (2013) (1 episode)
• Nerds and Monsters (2014–2016) (40 episodes)
• Pirate Express (2015) (25 episodes)
• Chuck's Choice (2017) (5 episodes)

Awards

In 2016, he received a star on the Granville Street StarWalk in Vancouver.^[2]