Winifred Phillips

Winifred Phillips

Winifred Phillips is an award-winning composer for video games, television, radio and film. She has been nominated for numerous awards, and has won sixteen, amongst which are two Hollywood Music in Media Awards and five Game Audio Network Guild Awards, including Music of the Year. Phillips' music is produced by long-time creative partner Winnie Waldron.

Phillips is also a published author of a comprehensive resource book about the field of game music, titled A Composer's Guide to Game Music, which serves as a practical guide for aspiring video game composers.

Career

From 1992 to 2003, Phillips was the composer, producer and actress in a series of radio dramas titled Radio Tales, which adapted classic works of American and world literature. It was this project that lead her to work together with Winnie Waldron, Radio Tales' creator, who would produce Philipps' music from then on.

Phillips' first venture into the video game industry came in 2004 when she was hired as a composer for God of War; the soundtrack would receive five Game Audio Network Guild Awards, including Music of the Year. She followed up on this debut with musical scores for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Da Vinci Code games, published by 2K Games. After this, Phillips composed the music for the Shrek the Third video game for Activision.

After projects such as Speed Racer, SimAnimals and Legend of the Guardians, Phillips began creating music for the LittleBigPlanet video game franchise in 2011. Especially LittleBigPlanet 2's soundtrack was well-received, being nominated for several awards.

In 2012, Phillips composed the soundtrack for Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, with the project winning her many awards. For the music composition of Liberation, she received a Global Music Award for musical excellence. The score also earned Phillips and Waldron a 2012 Hollywood Music in Media Award and a GameFocus Award. The main theme of Liberation won a G.A.N.G. Award from the Game Audio Network Guild in the category of "Best Original Vocal Song - Choral". Finally, the soundtrack received nominations in several year-end award competitions, including the GameZone Awards, the Best of IGN Awards, and the G4TV X-Play Best of 2012 Awards.

In March 2014, Philipps' book A Composer’s Guide to Game Music was published by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

Discography

2005

• God of War
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2006

• The Da Vinci Code

2007

• Shrek n' Roll
• Shrek the Third

2008

• Speed Racer

2009

• The Maw
• SimAnimals
• Spore Hero

2010

• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2011

• LittleBigPlanet 2
• LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story (DLC)

2012

• LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
• LittleBigPlanet Karting
• Assassin's Creed III: Liberation

2013

• Fighter Within

External links

• Winifred Phillips' official website.
• Winifred Phillips' Facebook page.
• Winifred Phillips' Twitter page.
• Winifred Phillips at the Internet Movie Database.