Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television, and video game score.
Also recorded as Lorne David Roderick Balfe
Lorne Balfe
- Born
- 1976.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom.
- Occupation
- composer, film score composer and musician.
- Fields
- video game music.
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Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television, and video game score.
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A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Rumble, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, Argylle, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The Naked Gun, The Cat in the Hat, and three DreamWorks Animation films, including Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home. He has also scored the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with the directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Mikael Håfström and Jaume Collet-Serra; and violinists Charlie Bisharat and Eun-Mee Ahn. He composed the new fanfare for Skydance Media transcribed as There's a World, There's A Moon. Balfe also composed the Annapurna Pictures deep note opening logo. Balfe is also involved in The Game Awards as the conductor of the Game Awards Orchestra and the composer and arranger of several musical performances performed at the show. Since The Game Awards 2018, he has composed a medley of the themes of the six nominees for Game of the Year every year as a presentation of the award at the end of the show.
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2017
Ghost In The Shell Album Lorne Balfe (2017) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- 1.Glen, Louise. Inverness composer Lorne Balfe is raffling Black Widow signed score for Highland Hospice at only £10 a try. The Inverness Courier. 19 July 2021.
- 2.Composing a career of note in LA. The Scotsman. 9 July 2002.
- 3.Erlich, David. Alexandre Desplat on Wes Anderson's Amazing 'French Dispatch' and del Toro's Musical 'Pinocchio'. IndieWire. May 21, 2020.
- 4.Lorne Balfe Scoring Michael Bay's 'Ambulance'. Film Music Reporter. August 4, 2021.
- 5.Lorne Balfe to Score Neill Blomkamp's 'Gran Turismo' | Film Music Reporter.
- 6.Lorne Balfe to Return for Christopher McQuarrie's 'Mission: Impossible 7 & 8' Film Music Reporter.
- 7.Lorne Balfe Scoring Akiva Schaffer’s ‘The Naked Gun’. Film Music Reporter.
- 8.Lorne Balfe. #TBT Shoebox Zoo for the BBC . This was my first TV show . Listen to the main theme. 766394418215653376. 18 August 2016.
- 9.Lorne Balfe to Score BBC's & HBO's 'His Dark Materials'. Film Music Reporter.
- 10.Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. 2010 Awards Category Details Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. interactive.org.
- 11.Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. 2014 Awards Category Details Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition. interactive.org.
- 12.Hopkins, Tom. Full FIFA 19 Soundtrack Revealed; Hans Zimmer Working on The Journey's Score. Twinfinite. August 31, 2018.
- 13.Hans Zimmer - Topic. Dragon Age: The Veilguard Main Theme [From "Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Original Soundtrack)"]. 2024-09-30.
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