Welcome to the world of Beathoven Music

Beathoven Music was established in March '08 by Elise Bennett and Hein Hoven. Beathoven is a full service Music House, offering original compositions, sound design, music searches and licensing.



Elise Bennett
[the one that runs the business, does the deals, the budgets and finds new work.]

Elise grew up living between the UK and Antigua. She has extensive experience in production, beginning at the BBC, then onto commercial production at Propaganda films and Independent films where she still currently works and has done so for 6 years. During this time Elise has represented directors in both the UK and the US. She has been involved with campaigns such as Levis, Orange, Xbox, VW, Starburst, Budweiser to name a few. Elise's production skills have allowed her to work on other independent projects, such as location manager in Antigua (whilst taking a year and half challenge owning and running a restaurant). Elise has also co-written a screenplay and is currently overseeing the optioning of it.

Elise loves old world wine and cheese.



Hein Hoven
[the one that does the creative, writing music bit]

Hein was born in Holland and moved to Hollywood when he was 8. At 16 he became a Roadie and started touring with the Doobie Brothers amongst other bands. He then became a Soundguy at the world-famous Max's Kansas City in New York. After this, he moved to London where he produced, engineered and re-mixed many top recording artists of the day. During this time, Hein also produced and toured with The Stray Cats for their first 3 albums, achieving platinum records and number 1s around the world. Hein then busied himself producing and re-mixing dance tracks, of which 6 made it to number 1 and 7 others made the top 10.

After returning to Los Angeles, Hein continued producing albums, including a track for Sade. He then turned his hand to feature films and provided the underscore for the motion picture Philadelphia, for which he received a GRAMMY® award nomination. He then went on to work with Joe Strummer on the score for Grosse Point Blank before producing and mixing a track for Bush called 'Mouth', which was used extensively throughout the movie An American Werewolf in Paris.

Hein later established B5 Studios. Producing music for 11 feature films and many hundreds of commercials. B5 Studios ran for 12 years. During this time John Taylor of Duran Duran and Hein opened up B5 Records as well.

Ready for a new challenge, Hein started Finger Music, which quickly became placed in the top 10 of international Music Houses. In July '07 Hein sold his interest in Finger and took a year sabbatical.

Today Hein can be found hard at work at his new company Beathoven Music, Notting Hill, London.

Hein's favourite drink is tequila and he loves snowboarding.


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