Stephen Barton

Stephen Barton
Born (1982-09-17) 17 September 1982
Preston, England
Genres Film scores
Occupation(s) Composer
Website afterlightinc.com

Stephen Barton (born 17 September 1982) is a British film and video game composer who has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2001. He has composed the music for dozens of major film, television and video game projects, including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Titanfall, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (with James Cameron), and Disney's Motorcity.

Early life

As a child, Barton was a chorister in Winchester Cathedral Choir, later winning a prestigious DfE specialist music scholarship to study piano and composition at Wells Cathedral School,[1] one of the oldest extant schools in the world.

Film and television

Barton's film work include scores for Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away, Jennifer's Body, Tom Dolby and Tom Williams' debut feature Last Weekend, Line of Fire, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont and the BAFTA nominated thriller Exam. He also contributed music for the Narnia and Shrek franchises (including the "Fairy Godmother Song" from Shrek 2) as well as Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, Tony Scott's Man On Fire and Ben Affleck's "Gone, Baby Gone".

Chris Prynoski, the animator behind the hallucination scene in Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, heard Barton's score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and asked him to score Titmouse's animated series G.I. Joe: Resolute,[2] which led to a further collaboration on a series for Disney, Motorcity.[3] In addition to those he also co-wrote the music for MTV's Disco Destroyer,[4] a project conceived by Scott Mosier, Jim Mahfood and Joe Casey and animated by Titmouse, composing the score with Chevy Metal and My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy.

Video games

In 2007, Barton wrote the score for the highly regarded first person shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (with Harry Gregson-Williams).[5] He teamed up with the same developers at their new company Respawn Entertainment to work on the music for Titanfall,[6] an online-only multiplayer shooter. Barton also created the music for the 2016 sequel, Titanfall 2. His other game work includes additional music for two of the Metal Gear Solid games as well as the game score for DreamWorks Animation's How To Train Your Dragon.[7]

Other work

Barton has collaborated frequently with Sir Anthony Hopkins since producing the soundtrack for the film Slipstream in 2006. He produced the Decca album "Composer", which topped the UK Classical charts for a month in 2012,[8][9] as well as collaborating with Hopkins on the production of "And The Waltz Goes On" with André Rieu, which won the Classic FM "Album Of The Year" award in the Classic Brit Awards 2012.[10] As a pianist he has performed extensively as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony,[11] City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Brussels Philharmonic, as well as on numerous movie soundtracks and diverse albums including Hybrid's I Choose Noise[12] and playing the mellotron on a cover of Snowblind for Fireball Ministry's eponymously titled album in 2010.

His company Afterlight Inc. is based in Hollywood. Barton is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Discography

Film

Year Title Director Notes
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas Patrick Gilmore
Tim Johnson		 Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Additional Music
2004 Man on Fire Tony Scott Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and Lisa Gerrard
Conductor, music arranger and programmer.
Shrek 2 Andrew Adamson
Conrad Vernon
Kelly Asbury		 Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Additional Music
Return to Sender Bille August
Team America: World Police Trey Parker
2005 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont Dan Ireland N/A
2009 The Six Wives of Henry Lefay Howard Michael Gould N/A
Exam Stuart Hazeldine Co-composed with Matthew Cracknell
Jennifer's Body Karyn Kusama Co-composed with Theodore Shapiro
2012 Dino Time John Kafka
Yoon-suk Choi		 Co-composed with Loren Gold
2013 Line of Duty Bryan Ramirez N/A
2014 4 Minute Mile Charles-Olivier Michaud N/A
Last Weekend Tom Dolby
Tom Williams		 N/A
2017 Unlocked Michael Apted N/A

Television

Year Programme Network Episode(s) Notes
2009 G.I. Joe: Resolute Adult Swim 11 N/A
2012 Motorcity Disney XD 16 Theme music composed by Brendan Small
2013 Liquid Television MTV 1 Composer for pilot episode only
2015 - 2017 Niko and the Sword of Light Amazon Video 14 N/A
2017 - 2018 12 Monkeys Syfy 16 Co-composed with Bryce Jacobs, Paul Linford and Trevor Rabin

Video Games

Year Title Studio(s) Notes
2007 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Activision
Infinity Ward		 Theme music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Nominated — Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media
2010 How to Train Your Dragon Activision
Étranges Libellules
Griptonite Games		 N/A
2014 Titanfall Electronic Arts
Respawn Entertainment		 Nominated — NAVGTR Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, New IP
2016 Titanfall 2 N/A

References

  1. ↑ "Wells Composition Alumni". wellscathedralschool.org. 2011-04-06. Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
  2. ↑ http://www.yojoe.com/television/resolute/resolutecredits.shtml
  3. ↑ http://obsoletegamer.com/gamer-profile-stephen-barton/
  4. ↑ http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/jim-mahfood-illustrator-comic-books.html
  5. ↑ http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/11/05/the-music-of-call-of-duty-4
  6. ↑ "The Music of Titanfall: Interview". metro.co.uk. 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  7. ↑ http://www.gameranx.com/features/id/20263/article/titanfall-stephen-barton-discusses-online-only-music-composition/
  8. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148302534/anthony-hopkins-lives-out-a-long-deferred-musical-dream
  9. ↑ http://www.classicfm.com/composers/sir-anthony-hopkins/news/classic-fms-anthony-hopkins-interview-part-1/
  10. ↑ "The Classic BRIT Awards 2012 with MasterCard — Winners". classicbrits.co.uk. 2012-10-02. Archived from the original on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  11. ↑ "Composer, CSO take audience to the movies". denverpost.com. 2007-05-20. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  12. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/artists/hybrid-6/biography/
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