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.