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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Assassin's Creed Revelations, Vol. 2 (Single Player) [Original Game Soundtrack]
Jesper Kyd, Lorne Balfe, Assassin's Creed
Computerspiele - Erschienen bei Ubisoft Music am 15.11.2011
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The First Frontier: Chapter 2 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Genius (Original National Geographic Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Milan Records am 31.01.2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Hurricane Heist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Filmtrax Ltd. am 09.03.2018
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 18.10.2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Marcella (Original Series Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Lakeshore Records am 09.03.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rumble (Music from the Motion Picture)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Paramount Music am 17.12.2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Penguins of Madagascar (Music from the Motion Picture)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 21.11.2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Rules of Life: Chapter 1 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Songbird (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 11.12.2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Contemporary Drama
Soundtracks - Erschienen bei KPM Main Series am 01.08.2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Home (Original Motion Picture Score)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 03.04.2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Invaders of the Land: Chapter 3 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Living Football (Official FIFA Theme)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 08.06.2018
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
In the Shadows of Giants: Chapter 5 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
In Cold Blood: Chapter 4 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Celtic Adventure 2
Klassik - Erschienen bei Extreme Music am 11.06.2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Age of Ice and Fire: Chapter 8 (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series "Life On Our Planet")
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Netflix Music am 20.10.2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Silent Night (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Lakeshore Records am 10.12.2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Crying With Laughter
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Lorne Balfe am 10.06.2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Above and Beyond
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei 14th Street Music LLC am 07.02.2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo