Daniel Bernstein is a composer for video games and movies. Born in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in the Soviet Union (now part of

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), he received a B.S. in computer science and an

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in music composition from the

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. Bernstein started in games in 1996 "working in development and sound design". He has also worked as a composer for

Monolith Productions Monolith Productions, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Kirkland, Washington. The company has been a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment since August 2004. History Monolith Productions was founded on October ...

where he collaborated with Guy Whitmore on titles such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Outside of video games, he also wrote the soundtrack for short movies (''Kansas'' in 1998 and ''Maid of Honor'' in 1999). Changing career, he joined WildTangent as the Director of Product Strategy, and later left in 2002 to create

Sandlot Games Sandlot may refer to: * '' The Sandlot'', a 1993 film about young baseball players, and its sequels ** '' The Sandlot 2'', a 2005 film ** '' The Sandlot: Heading Home'', a 2007 film * Sandlot (company) is a Japanese video game developer that i ...

. While still acting as Sandlot's CEO, he returned to composition with the soundtrack to ''The Penitent Man'' in 2010.

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