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Jeff Broadbent

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Jeff Broadbent is an American multimedia composer, musician, and music producer. He has won several Hollywood Music in Media Awards and a G.A.N.G. Award for composing music for video games including PlanetSide 2, Resident Evil 3, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, among others.[1][2] He composes music for film and television as well, such as Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.[3]

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Early life and education

Jeff Broadbent began taking piano and classical alto saxophone lessons at 8 years of age and later learned to play the guitar and drums. At 16 years old he began music theory and composing music. He attended Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in music composition, as well as studying film scoring and video game scoring at UCLA.[4][5]

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Broadbent is a composer, multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboards, guitar, guitarViol bass, percussion, saxophone), and music producer. He began working in the video game industry in 2009 and has composed and produced music scores for Bigpoint, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros.'s video games.[6] He has worked with composers, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe and has won numerous awards for composing and producing music for video games.[2] He composed music for, Call of Duty: Mobile, Resident Evil 3, and Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor, among others, and for film and television such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.

He cites his musical influences as composers, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, as well as modern composers, Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Tōru Takemitsu, and others.[7]

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