Thomas Beckman, serves as violin and viola instructor at World of Music and Arts and performs with Vancouver Duo, The Arbutus Duo and three-time Best of Georgia Straight nominated rock trio, Sons of Granville. His recent #Violalicks series focused on 52 film and television themes with a weekly release in 2024, and continues to garner thousands of streams, including his hit cover Bridgerton with now over 500k streams on Spotify. His series also won an interview on CBC Radio. After winning a sizeable grant from Creative BC in 2025, Thomas is now in the midst of releasing Cosmic Viola, an astronomy-themed album featuring original arrangements and solo viola performances of famous sci-fi movie themes, shot at the HR MacMillan Space Centre.
Past commissions vary from independent film scores, to multi-mediashows, and concert classical works for such groups as the Borealis String Quartet, Arbutus Duo, the Prince George Symphony, Symphony 21, the Postmodern Camerata, the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and Orchestra North Academy. Past commissions vary from: First Breath (2022), Entropy (2021), Metatation (2020) and other slideshow compositions for the Artists for Conservation organization, Exoplanetarium (Oct, 2021) for Symphony 21, Caulfield in the Cape suite for the Prince George Symphony (May 8th, 2021), Submerged for the Orchestra North Festival (July 2021), Oceanus for the Arbutus Duo (May, 2020), the St Roch Suite for the Prince George Symphony (March 2019), Flux for the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra (April 2019), Tango, the Engine Room and Kwela! for the Borealis String Quartet (June 2017, 2018 and 2019), and Life in the Universe for the H.R MacMillan Space Centre and released on Redshift Records (October, 2018).
For film, Thomas continues to serve as in-house composer for Millspictures Studio, having released soundtracks for World War Big Foot (2026), Big Foot Country 2 (2024), Belladonna (2024), Elvis The Pig (2023), The Key To Christmas (2020), Beyond The Line (2019), Bigfoot Country (2018) and others.
