Guest Artist Bio
Tommy Tallarico
Tommy Tallarico is a veritable video game industry icon. As one of the most successful video game composers in history, he has helped revolutionize the gaming world, creating unique audio landscapes that enhance the gaming experience. He is considered the person most instrumental in changing the game industry from bleeps & bloops to realmusic now appreciated by millions of fans. He has worked in the gaming industry as a designer, product manager, producer, writer, game tester and head of both music and video departments.
An accomplished musician, Tallarico has been writing music for video games for more than 19 years. He has won more than 45 industry awards and has worked on more than 275 game titles; to date, they total sales of more than 100 million units and $4 billion in revenue. No one in the video game industry has ever worked on more titles and projects.
In 1994, he founded Tommy Tallarico Studios, the multimedia industry's largest audio production house. In 2002, Tallarico teamed up with fellow video game composer Jack Wall; together they created the critically acclaimed Video Games Live. The debut performance was launched on July 6, 2005, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. More than 11,000 people attended, making it the biggest video game concert in the world. Most of the game music played (Halo, Sonic, Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Myst, Kingdom Hearts, Tron, Advent Rising, etc.) had never before been performed live.
Tallarico was the first musician to release a video game soundtrack worldwide (Tommy Tallarico’s Greatest Hits Vol. 1). He has released eight video game soundtrack albums since, including the highly acclaimed James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies, MDK and award-winning Advent Rising and Earthworm Jim Anthology. More information online: tallarico.com.