Jeff Broadbent
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| years_active = 1996–present
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Jeff Broadbent is an American multimedia composer, musician, and music producer. He has won several Hollywood Music in Media Awards and a G.A.N.G. Award for composing music for video games including PlanetSide 2, Resident Evil 3, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, among others. He composes music for film and television as well, such as Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.{{cite web|url=https://sonixinema.com/blogs/scrapbook/five-questions-for-jeff-broadbent|title= Five Questions for Jeff Broadwood|work= Sonixinema|date=8 July 2019|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
Early life and education
Jeff Broadbent began taking piano and classical alto saxophone lessons at 8 years of age and later learned to play the guitar and drums. At 16 years old he began music theory and composing music. He attended Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in music composition, as well as studying film scoring and video game scoring at UCLA.{{cite web|url=https://soundiron.com/pages/jeff-broadbent |title= Jeff Broadbent Interview by Mike Peaslee|publisher=Sound Iron |date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thesoundarchitect.co.uk/jeffbroadbent/|title= INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER, JEFF BROADBEN|publisher=The Sound Architect |date=|accessdate=December 25, 2023}}
Career
Broadbent is a composer, multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboards, guitar, guitarViol bass, percussion, saxophone), and music producer. He began working in the video game industry in 2009 and has composed and produced music scores for Bigpoint, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros.'s video games.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6N5iYpgy4|title=DSO Dev Diaries – Interview with Jeff Broadbent @2:15 |publisher=DrakensangOnline |date=December 28, 2015|accessdate=December 26, 2023}} He has worked with composers, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe and has won numerous awards for composing and producing music for video games. He composed music for, Call of Duty: Mobile, Resident Evil 3, and Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor, among others, and for film and television such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.
He cites his musical influences as composers, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, as well as modern composers, Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Tōru Takemitsu, and others.{{cite web|url=https://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/jeffbroadbent.shtml|title= Interview with Jeff Broadbent (March 2012) by Chris Greening|publisher=Squareenix Music |date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
Video Game Music
- 2022 – Call of Duty: Mobile – Original Game Soundtrack – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq4HVOzKKGw|title= Jeff Broadbent – Call of Duty: Mobile Original Game Soundtrack|publisher=UNISONAR |date=3 May 2023|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2022 – Honor of Kings – 7th Anniversary Vinyl – Composer{{cite web|url=https://vgmdb.net/album/124485|title=Honor of Kings 7th Anniversary Vinyl|publisher=VGMDB |date=|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2020 – Terraria: Otherworld – Official Soundtrack – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/549978-re-logic-jeff-broadbent-jonathan-van-den-wijngaarden-terraria-otherworld.php|title=Re-Logic, Jeff Broadbent & Jonathan Van Den Wijngaarden Terraria: Otherworld|publisher=Album of the Year |date=June 17, 2020|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2020 – Resident Evil 3 – Soundtrack – Composer, arranger{{cite web|url=https://kissvk.org/playlist-31174070_85398274_384f134ab6663fc167|title= Resident Evil 3 (Remake)|publisher=KISSVK|date=|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2020 – Honor of Kings Original Game – Soundtrack Vol. 1 – Composer{{cite web|url=https://daily.plaympe.com/various-artists-honor-of-kings-original-game-soundtrack-vol-1/ |title=VARIOUS ARTISTS – HONOR OF KINGS (ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK), VOL. 1 |publisher=Daily Play MPE|date=January 31, 2020|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2020 – Resident Evil: Resistance – Composer
- 2019 – PlanetSide Arena – Composer
- 2019 – Grid – Original Soundtrack – Audio Design
- 2018 – Extinction (video game) – Composer
- 2018 – Arena of Valor – Soundtrack – Composer
- 2016 – Champions of Anteria – Original Game – Soundtrack – Composer{{cite web|url=https://behindtheaudio.com/2016/10/jeff-broadbent-champions-anteria/|title=Composer Jeff Broadbent about the musical process behind Ubisoft Blue Byte's 'Champions of Anteria' by Peter F. Ebbinghaus|publisher=Behind the Audio|date=October 16, 2016|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2016 – Assassin's Creed Identity – Composer
- 2016 – Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor – Original Soundtrack – Composer{{cite web|url= https://vgmdb.net/artist/17420|title= Jeff Broadbent|publisher=VGMDB |date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2016 – Gunjack 2: End of Shift – Composer
- 2015 – EVE: Gunjack – Composer
- 2015 – Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Official Soundtrack – Performer
- 2015 – Moonrise – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.soundtrack.net/album/moonrise/ |title=Moonrise (2015) [Video Game] |publisher=Soundtrack |date=|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2014 – Dawngate – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2014/06/05/jeff-broadbent-and-dawngate-on-top-score |title= Top Score – Jeff Broadbent and Dawngate on Top Score by Emily Reese|publisher=Your Classical|date=June 5, 2014|accessdate=December 23, 2023}}
- 2012 – PlanetSide 2 – Composer
- 2012 – I Am Alive – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sound-byte-meet-the-composer-jeff-broadbent/1100-6364772/ |title= Sound Byte: Meet the Composer – Jeff Broadbent – We talk to the composer who recently scored the new survival action title I Am Alive by Jon Leo|publisher=Game Spot |date=March 20, 2012|accessdate=December 23, 2023}}
- 2011 – Marvel Avengers Alliance{{cite web|url=https://www.1eavenuemusic.com/jeff-broadbent
|title= Jeff Broadbent|publisher=1e Avenue Music |date=|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
- 2011 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Original Score – Composer{{cite web|url=https://www.audiogang.org/jeff-broadbent-scores-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/ |title= Jeff Broadbent scores Transformers: Dark of the Moon by Brian Schmidt|publisher=Audio Audio Network Guild |date=June 28, 2011|accessdate=December 24, 2023}}
Awards
- 2023 – Peacekeeper Elite (Game for Peace) – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.hmmawards.com/2023-hmma-winners-and-nominees/|title=2023 HMMA Winners and Nominees|publisher=Hollywood Reporter|date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2022 – League of Legends: Wild Rift (Superhero Jayce Trailer) – Best Song/Score- Trailer (Video Game) – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://nextbestpicture.com/the-2022-hollywood-music-in-media-awards-hmma-winners/|title=The 2022 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) Winners by Matt Neglia|publisher=Next Big Picture|date=November 27, 2022|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2018 – Extinction – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/hollywood-music-media-awards-winners-2018-1153411/|title=Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Full List of Winners by Linda Xu|publisher=Hollywood Reporter|date=November 15, 2018|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2016 – Arena of Valor – Best Music in a Casual/Social Game – G.A.N.G. Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.fastestmanintheworld.com/news/2016/2/16/honor-of-kings-nominated-for-best-music-in-a-casualsocial-game-at-the-14th-annual-gang-awards|title=Honor Of Kings wins "Best Music in a Casual/Social Game" at the 2016 Game Audio Network Guild Awards |publisher=Fastest Man in the World|date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2016 – Assassin's Creed Identity – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.hmmawards.com/hmma-winners/|title=HMMA Winners 2016|publisher=HMMA|date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2015 – Wei Lai Zhan Chang – Best Mobile Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.hmmawards.com/2015-hmma-winners/|title=2015 HMMA Winners|publisher=HMMA|date=November 15, 2018|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2013 – Planet Side 2 – Original Game Soundtrack – Global Music Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.globalmusicawards.com/Winners-May-2013.html|title=Global Music Awards: Winners – 2013|publisher=Global Music Awards|date=November 15, 2018|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}
- 2013 – PlanetSide 2 – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards{{cite web|url=http://www.biogamergirl.com/2013/11/composer-jeff-broadbent-takes-home.html|title=Composer Jeff Broadbent Takes Home Award for Best Original Video Game Score for PlanetSide 2|publisher=Bio Game Girl|date=|accessdate=December 21, 2023}}