Sebastian C. Besquet is a Los Angeles-based composer for film, television, games, and live experience, known for emotionally direct scores that combine strong thematic identity with modern orchestral, electronic, and hybrid production.
Born into a recording family and trained at Yale, in Paris, and in USC’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, Besquet brings both conservatory rigor and studio fluency to story-driven music. His career began alongside Tyler Bates on Zack Snyder’s Watchmen and the video game Rise of the Argonauts, and expanded through close work with Christopher Young on projects including Sinister, The Monkey King, A Madea Christmas, and Dominion. He has also contributed to music departments for television and streaming projects including Devious Maids and Just Add Magic.
As a composer, orchestrator, and arranger, Besquet has built a body of work across features, games, large-scale live spectacle, and international productions. He composed the score for Troy: The Epic Horse Show, staged in Beijing at the Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, and orchestrated, arranged, and produced the show’s main theme, “Set Me Free,” performed by Jackie Evancho, with music by Tyler Bates and lyrics by Besquet and Christopher Raymond. He also orchestrated and arranged Ariana Grande’s “Touch It” in a Final Fantasy style for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, and contributed orchestral-hybrid music to Super Me (streaming on Netflix).
Recent work includes the horror-thriller Final Trip, co-composed with Christopher Raymond. Together, Besquet and Raymond are launching BOUKEN Music, a composer-led music-for-media studio built to give directors and producers a clear musical identity, flexible production scale, and the craft to carry a theme through a complete score.
Whether writing intimate psychological tension, lush orchestral drama, aggressive hybrid action, or offbeat chamber textures, Besquet’s focus is the same: music that clarifies the story, deepens the emotional stakes, and gives a film a sound the audience remembers.