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 ', among others. He composes music for film and television as well, such as ', ', The Lazarus Effect, and others.
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.
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. He has worked with composers, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe and has won numerous awards for composing and producing music for video games. He composed music for, ', Resident Evil 3, and Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor, among others, and for film and television such as ', The Lazarus Effect, and others.
He cites his musical influences as composers, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, as well as modern composers, Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, TÃ Âru Takemitsu, and others.
Video Game Music