Troels Brun Folmann
Troels Brun Folmann (born 10 January 1974, in Copenhagen) is a Danish composer who specializes in epic orchestral music featured in TV shows, trailers and video games, such as the "Tomb Raider" series, and commercial/trailers for films such as "Spider-Man 3", "", "The Illusionist" and "10,000 BC", and the fourth season of TV series "America's Got Talent". He worked on the "Tomb Raider" series with Crystal Dynamics for "", "" and "", the spin-off "Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light", refreshing for the first time the classical music style of the old series coming with a  new way of perceiving Lara's scores and a much more electronic approach and trailer modern orchestral feeling. Music sampling and production. Troels co-owned a music sampling company called Tonehammer, a developer of premium virtual instruments for composers and producers. As of August 2011, Tonehammer had come to an end. The music sampling company was split into two separate companies with Troels leading a new music-sampling company, along with partner Tawnia Knox, called 8Dio Productions. The virtual instruments of 8Dio range from epic choirs and epic percussion ensembles to solo vocals and next-generation hybrid scoring tools, with  over 250 products serving every genre worldwide. In May 2018, Troels Folmann launched the Sequential Prophet X with Dave Smith (inventor of MIDI). The Prophet X is a true analog hybrid sample synthesizer with >150 GB of sample content. Awards. Folmann has won multiple international awards, including the British Academy Award (BAFTA) for "Best Original Score", the Mix Foundation TEC Award for the "Best Interactive Entertainment Sound Production" at his composing debut for "Tomb Raider" with "". In addition Troels Folmann has been awarded the GDC/G.A.N.G award for his soundtrack work. Troels is also a Ph.D. scholar in Adaptive  Music Systems and Artificial Intelligence.