Joris Maarten de Man, known as Joris de Man, (born 30 June 1972) 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 Defi ...

and

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er, well known for his work on the video games ''

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'' and ''

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''. 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 Oleksa (Ukrainian: Олекса) is a Ukrainian name, a variant of the Slavic name Alexey or Greek Alexius. The name may refer to the following notable people: ;Given name *Oleksa Dovbush (1700–1745), Ukrainian outlaw *Oleksa Hirnyk (1912–1978), ...

in the video game ''

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''.

Awards

Joris de Man won the

Ivor Novello Award The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing. They have been presented annually in London by the Ivors Academy (formerly the BASCA) since 1956, and over 1,000 statuettes have been a ...

for Best Original Video Game Score for ''

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''. In 2018, he won the award a second time for his work on ''

''.

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