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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Top Gun: Maverick (Music From The Motion Picture)
Lady Gaga, OneRepublic, Lorne Balfe, Harold Faltermeyer, Hans Zimmer
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Interscope Records il 27 mag 2022
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Motion Picture)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Sony Classical il 12 lug 2023
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Assassin's Creed 3 (Original Game Soundtrack)
Video Giochi - Pubblicato da Ubisoft Music il 30 ott 2012
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Deutsche Grammophon (DG) il 18 ott 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Gran Turismo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Masterworks il 11 ago 2023
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The Wheel of Time: Season 2, Vol. 1 (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Milan il 8 set 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Argylle (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film)
Lorne Balfe, Ariana DeBose, Boy George
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Platoon il 2 feb 2024
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Assassin's Creed 3: The Tyranny of King Washington (Original Game Soundtrack)
Video Giochi - Pubblicato da Ubisoft Music il 30 ott 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Motion Picture) [Extended Edition]
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Sony Classical il 12 lug 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Music from the Motion Picture)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Paramount Music il 13 lug 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Original Game Score)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Activision il 1 giu 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Wheel of Time: Season 2, Vol. 2 (Prime Video Original Series Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Milan il 22 set 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Music from the Official Teaser Trailer)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Paramount Music il 24 giu 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Life On Our Planet (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Netflix Music il 13 ott 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Black Widow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Hollywood Records il 9 lug 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Decca (UMO) il 31 mar 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Wheel of Time: The First Turn (Amazon Original Series Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Milan il 12 nov 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Dungeon Master’s Jukebox (Music Inspired By Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Decca (UMO) il 28 lug 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Music from the Motion Picture)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Paramount Music il 15 gen 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Book of the Bard (Music Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)
Folk - Pubblicato da Paramount Music il 23 giu 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
The Crown Season Two (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series)
Rupert Gregson-Williams, Lorne Balfe
Serie TV - Pubblicato da Sony Classical il 8 dic 2017
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo