Ian Livingstone (composer)
Musical artist
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Ian Paul Livingstone (born 4 July 1969, in London) is a British composer for television, films and video games. He jointly won an Ivor Novello Award in 2011 for a video game score for Napoleon: Total War.[1] He is best known as the composer of the F1 video game series.
He was classically trained from the age of five and has a background as a pop/dance music producer, band member and session musician. He is a graduate of Salford University.[2]
Notable works
Video games
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Rugby World Cup '95 | Music |
| 1998 | Xenocracy | Music |
| 1999 | Formula One 99 | Music |
| 2000 | Starlancer | Music with David Blinston |
| Star Trek: Invasion | Music with David Blinston | |
| 2001 | Lego Creator: Harry Potter | Music |
| 2002 | Disney's Treasure Planet | Music |
| 2003 | X2: Wolverine's Revenge | Music |
| Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior | Music | |
| Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Music | |
| Project Gotham Racing 2 | Music with Mathias Grünwaldt and Rainer Heesch | |
| Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter | Music with Dean Evans | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds | Music | |
| 2004 | Pixelus | Music |
| 2005 | Kingdom Hearts V CAST | Music |
| Stolen | Music | |
| Predator: Concrete Jungle | Music | |
| Batman Begins | Music | |
| 2006 | Hammer Heads | Music |
| Bionicle Heroes | Music | |
| 2007 | Boom Boom Rocket | Music |
| Dungeons & Dragons Tactics | Music | |
| Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts | Music with Inon Zur | |
| Bee Movie Game | Music | |
| 2008 | Race Driver: Grid | Music with Aaron Sapp and Thomas Bergersen |
| Monopoly | Music | |
| 2009 | Burn Zombie Burn | Music |
| Battlefield Heroes | Music | |
| Battlefield 1943 | Music | |
| 2010 | Napoleon: Total War | Music with Richard Beddow, Richard Birdstall and Simon Ravn |
| F1 2010 | Music | |
| Create | Music with Dominic Smart, David Newby and Hywel Payne | |
| Top Gun | Music | |
| 2011 | F1 2011 | Music |
| Forza Motorsport 4 | Two tracks | |
| All Zombies Must Die! | Music | |
| 2012 | F1 2012 | Music |
| 2013 | Grid 2 | Music |
| Total War: Rome II | Music with Simon Ravn | |
| F1 2013 | Music | |
| WRC 4: FIA World Rally Championship | "Heroic Conflict" (licensed from KPM Music) | |
| Walking with Dinosaurs | Music | |
| 2014 | Lego The Hobbit | Music with Rob Westwood |
| Grid Autosport | Music with Phonat | |
| Valiant Hearts: The Great War | "Dream Within Dreams" (licensed from KPM Music) | |
| F1 2014 | Music | |
| 2015 | Total War: Attila | Music with various others |
| Total War: Warhammer | Music with Richard Beddow, Tilman Sillescu and Tim Wynn | |
| Lego Dimensions | Music with Rob Westwood | |
| 2016 | Lego Marvel's Avengers | Music with Rob Westwood |
| Shadow of the Beast | Music | |
| 2017 | Total War: Warhammer II | Music with various others |
| Lego Worlds | Music with Rob Westwood | |
| 2018 | MotoGP 18 | Music |
| Lego DC Super-Villains | Music with Simon Withenshaw | |
| 2019 | MotoGP 19 | Music |
| Jumanji: The Video Game | Music with Michael Doherty | |
| 2020 | Total War: Three Kingdoms - The Furious Wild | Music |
| 2021 | F1 2021 | Music with various others |
| Forza Horizon 5 | "Tulum" | |
| 2022 | Total War: Warhammer III | Music with various others |
| Grid Legends | Music | |
| The Quarry | Music | |
| F1 22 | Music with various others | |
| 2023 | F1 23 | Music with Ethan Livingstone and Brian Tyler |
| 2024 | Classified: France '44 | Music |
| F1 24 | Music with Lapalux | |
| Funko Fusion | Music | |
| 2025 | F1 25 | Music with Ethan Livingstone |
Television and film
He has composed for television for:[3]
Other
He has also produced songs, advertising jingles, movie scores and orchestrations. He also worked with Nokia during 2000 to 2004,[7] creating polyphonic arrangements of monophonic ringtones, including the Nokia tune,[2] as well as creating MIDI karaoke backing tracks for Roland.[8]