In This Program
The Concert
Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 2:00pm
Eímear Noone conducting
San Francisco Symphony
Songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Original Score by Christophe Beck
Story by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Shane Morris
Screenplay by Jennifer Lee
Executive Producer John Lasseter
Produced by Peter del Vecho, p.g.a.
Directed by Chris Buck Jennifer Lee
There will be one intermission.
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
© 2013 Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts. © All rights reserved.
About the Artists
Eímear Noone
Eímear Noone is a Los Angeles and Dublin–based conductor and award-winning composer, writing extensively for film and video games. As one of the world’s premier composers of game scores, Noone is responsible for some of the most enduring soundscapes on World of Warcraft and other best-selling video titles. Through her work on World of Warcraft, her music has reached more than 100 million people and continually inspired players to invent and build new worlds for nearly 15 years. Her composition portfolio of more than 30 film and game titles has received multiple industry accolades including the Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Video Game Score.
Recently, Noone composed the score for the Channel 5 drama series Maxine and the new production by Stephen Fry based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Canterville Ghost. She also composed for the animated feature film Two by Two: Overboard, which topped the UK box office in October 2020 and earned her an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Film Score.
Alongside composing, Noone conducts orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Sydney Symphony, among others. She was chosen by Nintendo to conduct the first ever 3D filming of a game score, and has recorded game scores for Sony Interactive. She has also toured as a conductor with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, a full four-movement symphony created from the themes from this iconic video game. Noone was invited to conduct on the 25th Anniversary recording, which set industry records for soundtrack sales. In 2020, she made history by becoming the first female conductor to perform at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Beyond these projects, Noone is constantly innovating new orchestral shows and concepts to expand the boundaries of her repertoire. She recently premiered a completely original show, Daughters of the Pirate Queen: The Spirit of Grace O’Malley, as part of Ireland’s 2023 International Women’s Day Celebration. Selling out the National Concert Hall of Ireland, this show synthesized the work of some of Ireland’s most exciting female performers and songwriters to tell the story of Grainne Mhaol, a legendary pirate queen whose story had gone untold.
As an advocate for creative women in technology and music, Noone is also in demand as a speaker and radio host, regularly invited to conferences and is the presenter for Classic FM’s gaming music show, High Score. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut last March.
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez are the Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy–winning married songwriting team behind the Disney animated films Frozen and Frozen 2. Together they also wrote the Oscar winning song “Remember Me” from Pixar’s Coco and songs for Marvel’s WandaVision (including an Emmy Award win for “Agatha All Along”). They wrote songs for the Obamas’ series We the People and adapted Frozen for the Broadway stage. Robert co-conceived and co-wrote the hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, both earning him Tony Awards. Kristen’s show In Transit made history as the first a cappella musical to run on Broadway, after an award-winning off-Broadway run.
Anderson-Lopez and Lopez have written for television, film, and stage, including Finding Nemo: The Musical; songs for The Wonder Pets (two Emmy Award wins); and the Winnie the Pooh animated film. Anderson-Lopez and Lopez both serve on the Dramatist Guild Council. Graduates of Yale University and Williams College, respectively, they now reside in Brooklyn with their two daughters.
Christophe Beck
Canadian composer Christophe Beck started piano lessons at five, and by 11 was learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing with his first-ever band, the unfortunately-named Chris and the Cupcakes. During high school he studied piano, saxophone, and drums, and wrote many tender 80s love ballads.
While studying music at Yale, Beck wrote two musicals with his brother Jason (aka Gonzales, the Paris-based pianist–producer–TV-host–prankster), as well as an opera based on “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.
Upon graduation, Beck moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s film scoring program, where he studied with Jerry Goldsmith. A personal recommendation from Buddy Baker, then head of the USC Music Department, led to his first assignment for a Canadian TV series called White Fang. Several TV series later, he was asked to score the second season of WB Network’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Beck received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for his score to the Buffy episode “Becoming, Part 1.”
In 2000, the cheerleading comedy Bring It On launched Beck’s film career, which includes such diverse credits as Under the Tuscan Sun, Edge of Tomorrow, Crazy Stupid Love, Pitch Perfect, and The Hangover trilogy. More recently, he scored the Oscar and Grammy–winning animated film Frozen and Marvel’s Ant-Man films. He works out of his studio in Santa Monica.
