Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe (born February 23, 1976) is a Grammy award- winning film composer from Inverness, Scotland. Lorne is known for composing the scores to the Dreamworks’ animation Megamind, and Ron Howard’s film The Dilemma, in collaboration with Academy Award- winning composer, Hans Zimmer.
In addition to being recognized for producing two of Zimmer’s Oscar- nominated scores, Sherlock Holmes and Inception, Lorne has also received significant recognition for his work in the United Kingdom.
Career
In 2009, Lorne was nominated for the Discovery of the Year World Soundtrack Award for his score for BAFTA award- winning Crying With Laughter and he was nominated for the prestigious Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. Balfe began his career in Hollywood providing additional music on several major motion pictures, including: the Pirates of the Caribbean II, and III, The Simpsons Movie, Angels & Demons, Iron Man, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He also composed additional music on the 2009 Golden Globe™ nominated film Frost/Nixon.
Complimented by his additional music, Balfe’s role as a score producer on 2008′s The Dark Knight earned Lorne a Grammy™ for “Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture.” In 2009, Balfe was music producer and composer of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 videogame, and score producer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, which earned a 2010 Oscar® nomination for Best Original Score. Only a year later, in 2011, Balfe produced the score for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which also earned a Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. Balfe’s recent film projects include Dreamworks’ box office hit Megamind, Ron Howard’s film The Dilemma, and the British made film, Ironclad.
Assassin's Creed series
Along with these, Balfe did music for the trailer of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. He was also a secondary composer for Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
In Revelations, he was responsible for composing the game's main theme, the music for in-game cinematics and the background music for the multiplayer of the Assassin's Creed installment. However, the primary composer was Jesper Kyd, who composed music for all previous games of the series, and scored the majority of Revelations' single-player music.
Balfe is currently composing the Assassin's Creed III Soundtrack. He is the sole composer for Assassin's Creed III having taken over from Jesper Kyd, who composed the for the previous Assassin's Creed games.[1]
Discography
2001
- The Wings Of A Film (Assistant to Hans Zimmer)
- Ancient Warriors (Additional Music)
2002
- The Last Detective (TV series) (Additional Music)
- 666 - Traue Keinem, Mit Dem Du Schläfst ! (Additional Music)
- Most Haunted (TV series Documentary) (Additional Music)
- River City (TV series)
- Cigarette (Short Film)
- Animal Park (TV documentary)
2003
- Saving Jessica Lynch (TV) (Additional Music)
- Fahrerflucht (Short Film) (Additional Music)
- Mimic: Sentinel (Music by Henning Lohner) (V) (Additional Music)
- Crime Spree (Music Arranger (uncredited))
- What a Girl Wants (Music Arranger)
- Barstow (Additional Music)
- God Is No Soprano (Short Film) (Additional Music)
- William and Mary (TV series) (Additional Music)
- Second Nature (TV) (Addionnal Music)
- The Night We Called It A Day (Additional Music)
2004
- Long Way Round (TV documentary series) (Additional Music)
- Sterne leuchten auch am Tag (TV) (Additional Music)
- Hellraiser: Deader (Musice by Henning Lohner) (Additional Music)
- La Torcedura (Short Film) (Additional Music)
- King Arthur (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- Laura's Star (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- Wimbledon (Additional Music (composer : Edward Shearmur))
- Shoebox Zoo (TV series)
- Manhunt (TV series)
- Crazy in Love (V)
- Loved, Alone (Short Film)
- Incident at Loch Ness (Additional Music)
2005
- Santa's Slay (V) (Additional Music)
- Batman Begins (Music Programmer)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Music by Julian Nott)(Additional Music)
- Detective (Additional Music (uncredited))
- Prinz und Paparazzi (TV) (Additional Music)
- Kein Himmel über Afrika (TV) (Additional Music)
- Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (VG) (Additional Music) [Promotional Release]
- True Crime (TV series)
- Mersey Cop (TV series)
- Have I Been Here Before ? (TV Documentary)
- Artworks Scotland (TV Documentary)
- The Jeremy Kyle Show (Talk Show TV)
- Hotel Rwanda (Music Programmer)
2006
- 10.5: Apocalypse (Music by Henning Lohner) (TV) (Additional Music)
- Blood Rayne (Additional Music)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- The Da Vinci Code (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- The Holiday (Additional Music)
2007
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- The Simpsons Movie (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- The Simpsons Movie: The Music (Promo EP) (Additional Music) [Promotional Release]
- Transformers (Music by Steve Jablonsky) (Additional Music)
- Bee Movie (Music by Rupert Gregson-Williams) (Additional music)
2008
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- Casi Divas (Musician : Percussion)
- Running The Sahara (Additional Music)
- Frost/Nixon (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music - Additional Recordings)
- The Dark Knight (Music by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard) (Additional Music)
- Iron Man (Music by Ramin Djawadi) (Additional Music)
- The Burning Plain (Music by Hans Zimmer and Omar Rodríguez-López) (Soloist)
2009
- Angels & Demons (Additional Music)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Additional Music)
- Sherlock Holmes (Music by Hans Zimmer) (Additional Music)
- Crying With Laughter
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (with Hans Zimmer)
- World War II in HD (Documentary)
2010
- Verizon 4G/LTE Lightning Bolt Commercial (Background Track music)
- Megamind (with Hans Zimmer)
- Inception (Additional Music)
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Trailer)
- Salinger (Documentary about J. D. Salinger)
2011
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (with Hans Zimmer) (additional music)
- Kung Fu Panda 2 (Additional Music)
- Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (with Hans Zimmer)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (with Jesper Kyd)
- Crysis 2 (with Hans Zimmer)
- The Dilemma (with Hans Zimmer)
- Ironclad
2012
- The Sweeney
- The Dark Knight Rises (music by Hans Zimmer) (additional music)
- The Frozen Ground
- Assassin's Creed III
- Skylanders: Giants
External links
References
- Official Website.
- Lorne Balfe IMDB.
- Interview with Lorne Balfe about his recent work.
- UJAM site featuring Balfe talking about Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
- iTunes Track list