website years_active notable_instruments birth_place alias background birth_date article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://www.jeffvandyck.com/ http://www.jeffvandyck.com -rsb- 1992 - piano , percussion vancouver , canada jeff dyck non_performing_personnel 1969 jeff van dyck
 jeff van dyck video game music composer
jeff van dyck

jeff van dyck -lrb- known as jeff dyck in his early years -rrb- is a canadian/australian video game music composer .
born in 1969 and raised in vancouver , canada , van dyck is a freelance composer , audio director and sound designer currently working with sega , kixeye and is a partner in the brisbane based developer witchbeam .
he started to become known in the video game music industry in 1992 , when he was working with electronic arts -lrb- ea -rrb- for several sports game franchises , such as the `` need for speed '' series , together with saki kaskas .
after his stint in ea , van dyck became the composer for the popular `` total war '' franchise of the creative assembly .
during his collaboration with the video game developer , van dyck won a british academy of film and television arts award -lrb- in 2001 -rrb- and garnered a nomination -lrb- in 2005 -rrb- .
one of the games that he worked audio on as well , `` total war : shogun 2 : fall of the samurai '' , was nominated for the `` audio achievement '' section of the `` develop '' awards in may 2012 .
