Bill Brown (composer)
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Bill Brown IV (born 1969 in San Diego, California) is an American composer.
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[edit] Biography
Brown grew up living on both the West and East coasts. In August 1991, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in film scoring and song writing studies from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Later, in August 2003, he received his Masters Degree from the University of Santa Monica. He has a wife, Rosario, whom he married in late 2003.
[edit] Career
Brown has composed and produced music for many films, such as Any Given Sunday, Ali and Finding Forrester. He has also scored music for television films like Scorcher and Trapped. He has composed music for numerous video games, including first-person shooters like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, role-playing games like Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle, and real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer: Generals, as also the background music in Microsoft's Windows XP operating system's welcome tour.
He has also composed music for directors and producers, including Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Clive Barker, Michael Crichton, Gus Van Sant, Michael Mann and Tom Clancy.
As of June 2005, he is the composer for the CBS television series, CSI:NY.
In 2005 Brown started his own company, Bill Brown Music, Inc. He lives in Los Angeles, California and is represented by First Artists Management.
[edit] Composer
[edit] Video games
- Command & Conquer: The First Decade (2006) - Compilation which included his work
- The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005)
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm (2004)
- Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (2003)
- Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003)
- Command & Conquer: Generals (2003)
- Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (2003)
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003)
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (2002)
- The Sum of All Fears (2002)
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)
- Undying (2001)
- Anachronox (2001)
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (2001)
- Rainbow Six: Black Thorn (2001)
- Shadow Watch (2000)
- Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999)
- Rainbow Six (1998)
- Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998)
[edit] Videos
- Evil Deeds (2004)
- Lady Death (2004)
- Behind Enemy Lines: The Making of 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein' (2001)
[edit] Television
- "CSI: NY" (2004) (TV series)
- "Trapped" (2001) (TV film)
[edit] Film
- Any Given Sunday (1999) (songs "Spiritual," "Rock the Sharks," "Sharks' Theme")
- War of the Angels (1999)
Other
- Scorcher (2002)
[edit] Awards
- BMI 2005 TV Music Award for "CSI:NY" Season 1
- ITVA Golden Reel GOLD Award for Kennedy Space Center "Gateway to the Universe" soundtrack
- Music4Games - M4G Editor's Choice Award for "The Sum of All Fears" (PC)
- Best Music Award - PCXL Magazine's 1998 All-Star Awards for "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six"
[edit] Nominations
- Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.G.) 2003 Awards Nominee for Lineage II: the Chaotic Chronicle (NCSoft), in the following categories: Best Live Performance Recording, Best Cinematic / Cut-Scene Audio, Best Original Vocal Song - Choral
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2003 Games Awards Nominee in the Music category: Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2003 Games Awards Nominee in the Music category: Command and Conquer: Generals
- Golden Reel Nominee: Feature Film Ali (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
- Golden Reel Nominee: Feature Film Any Given Sunday (Warner Bros.)
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2001 Interactive Entertainment Award Nominee in the Music category: "Clive Barker's Undying"
- Best Original Music Nominee by L.A. Weekly: Blue Sphere Alliance's live theatrical production "Nagasaki Dust"
- Golden Reel Nominee: Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (Renaissance Pictures/Universal)
- Golden Reel Nominee: In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Showtime Pictures)
