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Music Composition
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Geoff Knorr is a composer, orchestrator, audio engineer, and sound designer with experience creating live and MIDI scores for games. He recently worked as a composer, orchestrator, and sound designer for Firaxis Games, developer of the popular turn-based strategy series, "Sid Meier's Civilization." He composed approximately half of the original music and completed all of the orchestration and music preparation for Civilization V, which released in September 2010. In addition to his work on games, Geoff is also a composer of concert music, with performances by the Minnesota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Wheaton College Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. His music has received numerous awards, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and Macht Orchestral Composition Award. He was also selected as a participant in the 2009 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. |
