Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe is a Grammy Award-winning composer and producer known for his various film, television, and video game scores. A protégé of composer Hans Zimmer, he has garnered acclaim for scoring such high-profile films as 2017's The Lego Batman Movie, 2018's Mission Impossible: Fallout, and 2022's Black Adam.
Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1976, Balfe grew up in a musical family and began playing piano at a young age. A gifted musician, by his teens he was making a living writing jingles for commercials, a skill he quickly transitioned into scoring music for TV shows. After a period living in London, he relocated to California, where he joined the staff at composer Hans Zimmer's Santa Monica-based Remote Control Productions. Working with Zimmer, he earned credits for such notable productions as Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, and more.
In 2009, he joined Zimmer and composer James Newton Howard in taking home the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their work on director Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel The Dark Knight. However, it was Balfe's collaboration with Zimmer on the music for the 2010 animated film Megamind that helped launch his solo composing career. At the same time, he earned acclaim for his work in video games, composing the music for Crysis 2, Skylanders, Assassin's Creed: Revelations with Jesper Kyd, and Assassin's Creed III. Both of his Assassin's Creed scores earned BAFTA nominations for Best Original Music.
Although he continued to work with Zimmer, Balfe became an in-demand composer in his own right, and supplied the scores for such high-profile productions as 2013's biopic Salinger, 2014's animated Penguins of Madagascar, and 2015's Terminator Genysis. In 2017, he composed the music for The Lego Batman Movie. He was also score producer on the war drama Dunkirk that year, and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme for his collaboration with Zimmer on the National Geographic Channel's Albert Einstein series Genius. In 2018, he scored Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible: Fallout and returned the following year with a handful of projects, including joining the series His Dark Materials as main composer and supplying the music for the Will Smith sci-fi thriller Gemini Man and the Michael Bay action movie 6 Underground. Balfe then paired with Zimmer again for 2020's Rebuilding Paradise, director Ron Howard's documentary about the 2018 California wildfires. He also scored the 2020 Will Smith and Martin Lawrence action comedy Bad Boys for Life.
Highlights of over a dozen projects he released over the next two years included 2021's Outside the Wire, Marvel entry Black Widow, and 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, whose soundtrack combined the talents of Balfe, Zimmer, Harold Faltermeyer, and Lady Gaga. That year, he also composed the score for the DC Comics blockbuster Black Adam, whose pulsing tension he contrasted with the softer, more lyrical approach of his music for the Julia Roberts-George Clooney romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise.
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Out of the Ashes: Chapter 6 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Originele soundtracks - Released by Netflix Music on 20 okt. 2023
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Skylanders Giants (Original Game Soundtrack)
Soundtracks - Released by Activision on 18 sep. 2012
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Jungleland (Original Motion Picture Score)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Globe Productions on 13 nov. 2020
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Revelation (from "The Wheel of Time Vol. 3" soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Milan on 10 dec. 2021
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Churchill (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Filmtrax on 2 jun. 2017
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Not Another Happy Ending (Lorne Balfe)
Originele soundtracks - Released by 14th Street Music LLC on 25 okt. 2013
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Al'Naito (The Flame) (from "The Wheel Of Time" soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Milan on 8 okt. 2021
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Prayer (From "Ad Astra" Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 22 nov. 2019
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Inheriting the Earth: Chapter 7 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Originele soundtracks - Released by Netflix Music on 20 okt. 2023
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Skylanders SWAP Force (Original Game Soundtrack)
Soundtracks - Released by Activision on 24 sep. 2013
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The Frozen Ground (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Metropolis Movie Music on 15 jul. 2013
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American Hero (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Lakeshore Records on 11 dec. 2015
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Intimidation Game (Single from the Journey: Champions Original Soundtrack)
Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, EA Games Soundtrack
Originele soundtracks - Released by EA Music on 31 aug. 2018
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Like a Raging Sun (from "The Wheel of Time Vol. 2" soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Milan on 23 nov. 2021
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Genius: Picasso (Original National Geographic Series Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Masterworks on 31 jan. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Blackwood (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Lakeshore Records on 28 apr. 2015
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Gloria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by Varese Sarabande on 21 aug. 2015
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Skylanders SuperChargers (Original Game Soundtrack)
Soundtracks - Released by Activision on 20 okt. 2015
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Ultimate Classix: The Hits 2 Holiday Mixes
Lorne Balfe, Russell Emanuel, Steve Kofsky
Ambient / New Age / Easy Listening - Released by Extreme Music on 14 aug. 2018
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Ping pong of China (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
鹿晗, Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski
Pop - Released by 杭州余音裊裊文化傳媒有限公司 on 17 feb. 2023
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Skylanders Trap Team (Original Game Soundtrack)
Soundtracks - Released by Activision on 14 jan. 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo