Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer and record producer of film, television, and video game scores. A veteran of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, Balfe's scoring credits include the films 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Terminator Genisys, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout, as well as the video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and the Call of Duty franchise. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
Influences
Balfe stated composers like Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Marco Beltrami, Alexandre Desplat, Thomas Newman, Trevor Horn, Steve Jablonsky, Alan Menken, Maurice Ravel, Leonard Bernstein, Elmer Betnstein, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Mark Snow, Ennio Morricone, Mark Mothersbaugh, Randy Newman, Henry Mancini, Maurice Jarre, James Horner, Georges Delerue, Elliot Goldenthal, Joe Hisaishi, Mychael Danna, Alexandre Desplat, David Arnold, Michael Giacchino, Bill Conti, Lalo Schifrin, Dave Grusin, Henry Mancini, Christophe Heral, Randy Edelman, Michel Legrand, Carter Burwell and John Williams as influences.
British composers
1976 births
Scottish musicians