Jeff Broadbent

Jeff Broadbent
Occupations	Composer Musician Music producer
Years active	1996–present
Awards	HMMA
Musical career
Genres	Film score Orchestral Rock Electronic Jazz
Instruments	Piano Keyboard Guitar GuitarViol Bass Percussion Saxophone
Website	jeffbroadbent.com

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, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, PlanetSide 2, and Arena of Valor, among others.^[1][2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

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.^[6] He has worked with composers, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe and has won numerous awards for composing and producing music for video games.^[2] 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.^[7]

Video Game Music

• 2022 – Call of Duty: Mobile – Original Game Soundtrack – Composer^[8]
• 2022 – Honor of Kings – 7th Anniversary Vinyl – Composer^[9]
• 2020 – Terraria: Otherworld – Official Soundtrack – Composer^[10]
• 2020 – Resident Evil 3 – Soundtrack – Composer, arranger^[11]
• 2020 – Honor of Kings Original Game – Soundtrack Vol. 1 – Composer^[12]
• 2020 – Resident Evil: Resistance – Composer^[13]
• 2018 – Arena of Valor – Soundtrack – Composer^[2]
• 2016 – Champions of Anteria – Original Game – Soundtrack – Composer^[14]
• 2016 – Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor – Original Soundtrack – Composer^[15]
• 2015 – Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Official Soundtrack – Performer^[15]
• 2015 – Moonrise – Composer^[16]
• 2014 – Dawngate – Composer^[17]
• 2012 – I Am Alive – Composer^[18]
• 2011 – Marvel Avengers Alliance^[13]

• 2011 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Original Score – Composer^[19]

Awards

• 2023 – Peacekeeper Elite (Game for Peace) – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[1]
• 2022 – League of Legends: Wild Rift (Superhero Jayce Trailer) – Best Song/Score- Trailer (Video Game) – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[20]
• 2018 – Extinction – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[21]
• 2016 – Arena of Valor – Best Music in a Casual/Social Game – G.A.N.G. Awards^[2]
• 2016 – Assassin's Creed Identity – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[22]
• 2015 – Wei Lai Zhan Chang – Best Mobile Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[23]
• 2013 – Planet Side 2 – Original Game Soundtrack – Global Music Awards^[24]
• 2013 – PlanetSide 2 – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards^[25]

References

1. "2023 HMMA Winners and Nominees". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
2. "Honor Of Kings wins "Best Music in a Casual/Social Game" at the 2016 Game Audio Network Guild Awards". Fastest Man in the World. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
3. "Five Questions for Jeff Broadwood". Sonixinema. 8 July 2019. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
4. "Jeff Broadbent Interview by Mike Peaslee". Sound Iron. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
5. "INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER, JEFF BROADBEN". The Sound Architect. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
6. "DSO Dev Diaries – Interview with Jeff Broadbent @2:15". DrakensangOnline. December 28, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
7. "Interview with Jeff Broadbent (March 2012) by Chris Greening". Squareenix Music. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
8. "Jeff Broadbent – Call of Duty: Mobile Original Game Soundtrack". UNISONAR. 3 May 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
9. "Honor of Kings 7th Anniversary Vinyl". VGMDB. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
10. "Re-Logic, Jeff Broadbent & Jonathan Van Den Wijngaarden Terraria: Otherworld". Album of the Year. June 17, 2020. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
11. "Resident Evil 3 (Remake)". KISSVK. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
12. "VARIOUS ARTISTS – HONOR OF KINGS (ORIGINAL GAME SOUNDTRACK), VOL. 1". Daily Play MPE. January 31, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
13. "Jeff Broadbent". 1e Avenue Music. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
14. "Composer Jeff Broadbent about the musical process behind Ubisoft Blue Byte's 'Champions of Anteria' by Peter F. Ebbinghaus". Behind the Audio. October 16, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
15. "Jeff Broadbent". VGMDB. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
16. "Moonrise (2015) [Video Game]". Soundtrack. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
17. "Top Score – Jeff Broadbent and Dawngate on Top Score by Emily Reese". Your Classical. June 5, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
18. "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". Game Spot. March 20, 2012. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
19. "Jeff Broadbent scores Transformers: Dark of the Moon by Brian Schmidt". Audio Audio Network Guild. June 28, 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
20. "The 2022 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) Winners by Matt Neglia". Next Big Picture. November 27, 2022. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
21. "Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Full List of Winners by Linda Xu". Hollywood Reporter. November 15, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
22. "HMMA Winners 2016". HMMA. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
23. "2015 HMMA Winners". HMMA. November 15, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
24. "Global Music Awards: Winners – 2013". Global Music Awards. November 15, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
25. "Composer Jeff Broadbent Takes Home Award for Best Original Video Game Score for PlanetSide 2". Bio Game Girl. Retrieved December 21, 2023.