Jean-Pascal Beintus was born in Toulouse. He studied double bass, piano at the conservatories of Nice, Lyon and Paris during the 1980s. When Sir John Eliot Gardiner created the Lyon Opéra Orchestra in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding double bass player. In 1996 Kent Nagano, then musical director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus's talents as composer and began to commission works from him. Since then, he has written music for nearly every type of ensemble, concert hall and film. JP Beintus's film work includes the original score of the Leonardo DiCaprio film The 11th Hour, as well as orchestrating more than 80 film scores. A recording of JP Beintus's work "Wolf Tracks" featuring Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren as narrators received a 2003 Grammy Award. Antonio Banderas narrated the Spanish version, released in 2007. Since his childhood, the world of fantasy literature fascinated him, he decided to take the plunge and published his first novel, Melwin - 'Le Château de Valfrisqué'.