Joris Maarten de Man (born 30 June 1972), better known as Joris de Man, is a Dutch

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

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er, well known for his work on the video games '' Killzone'' and '' Horizon Zero Dawn''. His first work involving video games was chip music written for Atari computers under the moniker "Scavenger." He was also employed as a freelance composer writing for CD-i games in The Netherlands from 1991-92. He spent three years working in London for the Bitmap Brothers on sound design and music composition. In 1999, he returned to the Netherlands and found work with

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. He has also written music for various film and television projects. He also led the composition of the soundtrack for ''Horizon Zero Dawn'', along with The Flight and Niels van der Leest. De Man has composed a new soundtrack for the '' Vainglory'' new 5v5 game mode. De Man composed the score alongside The Flight, Niels van der Leest and Oleksa Lozowchuk in the video game '' Horizon Forbidden West''.

Awards

Joris de Man won the

Ivor Novello Award The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Welsh entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and Musical composition, composing. They have been presented annually in London by the The Ivors Academy, Ivors Academy, formerly called the Britis ...

for Best Original Video Game Score for '' Killzone 2''. In 2018, he won the award a second time for his work on '' Horizon Zero Dawn''.

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1972 births Living people Dutch video game composers Killzone Musicians from The Hague Demosceners {{Netherlands-composer-stub