Neal Acree
Neal Acree is a composer known for his work across film, television and video games. He has created music for World of Warcraft since The Burning Crusade, including Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor, as well as animated shorts such as Harbingers: Khadgar.[1] Other game projects include Overwatch, StarCraft II, Diablo III and Heroes of the Storm,[2] while Acree's screen credits include Stargate: SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Sanctuary and more than 30 feature films as of 2016.[3]
Contents
Composed music
NB: The lists below include only some of the expansions scored by Acree.
Cataclysm
- Burning Steppes (Cataclysm)
- Darnassus (Cataclysm)
- Eye of the Vortex
- Ghosts (Cataclysm)
- Grove of the Ancients
- Mysterious
- Night Elves Themes
- Nightsong
- Ruins of Auberdine
- Shadowglen (Cataclysm)
- Siren Questline
- Stormwind (Cataclysm)
- Twilight Highlands
- Twilight's Hammer
- Twilight Vale
- Westfall (Cataclysm)
- Winterspring (Cataclysm)
- Patch 4.3 music - (see also Russell Brower)
Mists of Pandaria
- Wandering Isle - (see also Russell Brower)
- August Celestials
- Battle for Pandaria
- Mantid Themes
- Monk Themes
- Shen-zin Su
- Vale of Eternal Blossoms - (see also Jeremy Soule and Russell Brower)
- Valley of the Four Winds
- Wind Spire
- Patch 5.4 - (see also Derek Duke, Edo Guidotti, Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes, Jeremy Soule, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
Warlords of Draenor
- The scores for all Warlords of Draenor cinematics.[4]
- A Hero's Sacrifice
- A Light in the Darkness
- Grommash Hellscream
- Iron Dawn
- Khadgar's Plan
- Nagrand
- Night Spires
- Shadowmoon - (see also Sam Cardon, Craig Stuart Garfinkle and Eimear Noone)
- Spires of Arak
- Warsong
Legion
- Anduin's Theme
- Dalaran - (see also Russell Brower)
- Demon Hunter
- Ruins of Auberdine
- Patch 7.2 - (See also Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
- Patch 7.3 - (see also Clint Bajakian, Glenn Stafford, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
- Patch 7.3.5 - (see also Clint Bajakian, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford, Leo Kaliski and Russell Brower)
Battle for Azeroth
- Before the Storm - (see also Clint Bajakian, David Arkenstone, Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes, Leo Kaliski and Sam Cardon)
- Goblin Greed
- K'thir
- Lordaeron Alliance
- Lordaeron Horde
- Point of Impact PVP
- RTC (Real Time Cutscenes) - (see also Adam Burgess, Clint Bajakian, David Arkenstone, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes, Leo Kaliski, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
- Shrine of the Storm
- Vulpera
Notes
On July 14, 2006, Acree sent to Blizzard a demo piece, re-scoring the original World of Warcraft cinematic. He would later learn that this was an audition to score the Burning Crusade introductory cinematic, and his piece would win him the position. Although he had already scored around 20 films, and served as co-composer on Stargate: SG-1, Acree's demo was the first piece of video game music he had ever written.[5][6]
References
- ^ Terran Gregory on Twitter (2016-07-28).
- ^ Neal Acree on Twitter (2016-05-18).
- ^ LinkedIn profile. Retrieved on 2016-05-18.
- ^ https://twitter.com/TerranGregory/status/533883128582897664
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdKqR4cCzU&feature=youtu.be
- ^ Neal Acree on Twitter (2016-07-14).
External links
- Selected media
- Venture Beat: Overwatch, World of Warcraft composer Neal Acree is Blizzard’s cinematic music meister (2016-07-15)
