Ian Livingstone (composer)

Ian Paul Livingstone (born 4 July 1969, in London) is a British composer for television, films and video games. He jointly won an Ivor Novello Award in 2011 for a video game score for Napoleon: Total War.^[1] He is best known as the composer of the F1 video game series.

Ian Livingstone
Born	(1969-07-04) 4 July 1969 (age 55) London, England
Occupation	composer
Years active	1994–present

He was classically trained from the age of five and has a background as a pop/dance music producer, band member and session musician. He is a graduate of Salford University.^[2]

Work

Video games

Year	Title	Notes
1994	Rugby World Cup '95
1996	Davis Cup Complete Tennis
1997	Nightmare in the Toyfactory
1998	Xenocracy	and sound effects
	Football World Manager	and sound effects
1999	Formula One 99
2000	Tower of the Ancients
	Starlancer	and sound effects; with David Blinston
	Star Trek: Invasion	and sound effects; with David Blinston
	Red Ace
	Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom	sound effects
2001	Lego Creator: Harry Potter	and sound effects
	Candy Cruncher
	Art is Dead	and sound effects; with Richard Beddow
2002	Noah's Ark Deluxe
	Disney's Treasure Planet
2003	X2: Wolverine's Revenge	and sound effects
	Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior
	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	and sound effects
	Rocket Mania! Deluxe
	Project Gotham Racing 2	with Mathias Grünwaldt and Rainer Heesch
	NingPo Mah Jong
	Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter	with Dean Evans
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
	Text Express
2004	Pixelus	and sound effects
2005	Kingdom Hearts V CAST	and sound effects
	Stolen	and sound effects
	Scuba Solitaire 3D	and sound effects
	Predator: Concrete Jungle
	Penguin Puzzle	and sound effects
	Capone Casino 3D	and sound effects
	Batman Begins
2006	Hammer Heads	and sound effects
	Bionicle Heroes
2007	Boom Boom Rocket
	Dungeons & Dragons Tactics
	Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts	with Inon Zur
	Bee Movie Game
	Ultimate Chess 3D	and sound effects
2008	Race Driver: Grid	with Aaron Sapp and Thomas Bergersen
	Monopoly
2009	Trivial Pursuit
	Burn Zombie Burn	and sound effects
	Battlefield Heroes
	Battlefield 1943
2010	Napoleon: Total War	with Richard Beddow, Richard Birdstall and Simon Ravn
	F1 2010
	Create	with Dominic Smart, David Newby and Hywel Payne
	Top Gun
2011	F1 2011
	Forza Motorsport 4	two tracks
	All Zombies Must Die!
2012	F1 2012
2013	Grid 2
	Total War: Rome II	with Simon Ravn
	F1 2013
	WRC 4: FIA World Rally Championship	"Heroic Conflict" (licensed from KPM Music)
	Walking with Dinosaurs
2014	Lego The Hobbit	with Rob Westwood
	Commando Jack	with Adele Cutting and Hywel Payne
	Grid Autosport	with Phonat
	Valiant Hearts: The Great War	"Dream Within Dreams" (licensed from KPM Music)
	F1 2014
2015	Total War: Attila	with various others
	Total War: Warhammer	with Richard Beddow, Tilman Sillescu and Tim Wynn
	Lego Dimensions	with Rob Westwood
2016	Lego Marvel's Avengers	with Rob Westwood
	Shadow of the Beast
2017	Total War: Warhammer II	with various others
	Lego Worlds	with Rob Westwood
	Oure
2018	MotoGP 18
	Lego DC Super-Villains	with Simon Withenshaw
2019	MotoGP 19
	Jumanji: The Video Game	with Michael Doherty
	Heroic - Magic Duel
2020	Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Furious Wild
2021	F1 2021	with Ethan Livingstone, Miktek, Mark Willot and Brian Tyler
	Forza Horizon 5	"Tulum"
2022	Total War: Warhammer III	with various others
	Grid Legends
	The Quarry
	F1 22	with Ethan Livingstone, Miktek, Rory Hay and Brian Tyler
2023	F1 23	with Ethan Livingstone and Brian Tyler
2024	Funko Fusion

Television and film

He has composed for television for:^[3]

• Big Fat Gypsy Weddings^[4]
• The Great British Sewing Bee^[5]
• The Repair Shop^[6]
• Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage

The Expendabelles

Other

He has also produced songs, advertising jingles, movie scores and orchestrations. He also worked with Nokia during 2000 to 2004,^[7] creating polyphonic arrangements of monophonic ringtones, including the Nokia tune,^[2] as well as creating MIDI karaoke backing tracks for Roland.^[8]