Lena Raine
Lena Raine (born February 29, 1984), also known as Lena Chappelle, is an American composer and producer. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of "Celeste" and "Guild Wars 2". She has composed music for various other video games, including "Minecraft, Deltarune," and "". Life and career. Raine had an early exposure to music due to participation in choir at a young age. Her father was also a violinist. Through a Sonic fan community she was introduced to MIDI arrangement, first making MIDI versions of songs she knew and then making original music. She later attended  Cornish College of the Arts for a degree in music composition. Raine is transgender. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of "Celeste" and "Guild Wars 2". She worked on "Guild Wars 2" at ArenaNet for six years, initially as a Game Designer before composing soundtracks for the game. At ArenaNet, she and Maclaine Diemer were in-house composers of the music for the game's 2015 expansion, "". She left ArenaNet in 2016. In 2018, Raine released the text adventure "ESC" on itch.io. Raine was the developer and composer for "ESC", with visuals created by Dataerase. In  2019, she released her debut album, "Oneknowing". She composed music for "Minecraft", creating four new pieces of music which were included in the 1.16 "Nether Update" in 2020. A year later, she returned to Minecraft, composing six new tracks for the 1.18 "Caves & Cliffs: Part II" update, alongside fellow video game composer Kumi Tanioka. Raine created the soundtrack for the adventure RPG "", and assisted with the soundtrack for the second chapter of "Deltarune", both released in 2021. Awards. Raine was nominated for a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and won American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers  (ASCAP) Video Game Score of the Year in 2019. Her soundtrack for "Celeste" was also nominated for Best Score/Music at The Game Awards 2018.