Troels Brun Folmann

Troels Brun Folmann
Born	January 10, 1974 (1974-01-10) Copenhagen, Denmark
Genres	Orchestral, electronic, electro-acoustic
Occupations	Music composer
Instruments	Keyboard, piano
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Eidos Interactive Square Enix
Associated acts	8dio Production (music samples library) Tonehammer (Discontinued) 8Dawn (advertising music library)

Troels Brun Folmann (born on January 10, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a composer specialized in epic orchestral music featured in TV-shows, trailers and video games, such as the Tomb Raider series, and commercial/trailers for films such as Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Illusionist, 10.000 BC, America's Got Talent 2009 and over 50 other trailers. He has worked on the Tomb Raider series with Crystal Dynamics for Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Underworld, and the spin-off Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, refreshing for the first time the classical music style of the old series coming with a new way of perceiving Lara's scores, a much more electronic approach and trailer modern orchestral feeling.

He has won multiple international awards, including British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Original Score, the Mix Foundation TEC Award for the Best Interactive Entertainment Sound Production at his composing debut for Tomb Raider with Tomb Raider: Legend. In addition Troels Folmann has been awarded the GDC/G.A.N.G award for his soundtrack works. Troels is also a Ph.D. scholar in Adaptive Music Systems.

Troels and Mike Peaslee owned a music sampling company called Tonehammer, a developer of premium virtual instruments for composers and producers. Mike was also in the same production team, as a sound designer, of the Crystal Dynamics main videogames where Troels worked or collaborated.

As of August 2011, Tonehammer came to an end. The music sampling company was split into two separate companies with Troels leading a new music sampling company called '8dio Productions,' and Mike Peaslee leading 'Soundiron'. The aftermath of this unannounced action is that the original virtual instruments library had to be split in two distinct new libraries. The instruments of 8Dio range from epic choirs to epic percussion ensemble, solo vocals to next-generation hybrid scoring tools.

Video game scores

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (2010) (re-editing tracks from Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Underworld, with Colin O'Malley)
• Tomb Raider: Underworld (2008) (Composer of the Main Theme and bulk supervisor to composer Colin O'Malley)
• Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007)
• Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
• Project Snowblind (2005)
• Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown (2003)

Film trailer scores

• Americas Got Talent 2009 (2009)
• Batman Arkham Asylum (2009)
• Kings (2009)
• Valkyrie (2008)
• 10,000 BC (2008)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
• The Last Mimzy (2007)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
• The Illusionist (2006)

Awards

• Mix Foundation / TEC Award for Best Interactive Sound Production (2007)
• GDC/GANG Award for Best Original Soundtrack (2007)
• British Academy Video Games Award for Best Original Score (2006)
• Scandinavian D3 Award for Best Composer of All Time (2006)

External links

• Official website
• Official blog
• Troels Brun Folmann at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Tomb Raider: Legend composer Troels Folmann

References

Preceded by Peter Connelly

Tomb Raider composer 2006–2010

Succeeded by Colin O'Malley