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Revised Thing	Revision of the developer bio for Ian Livingstone
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Biography	Ian Livingstone is a multi-instrumentalist who began his professional career as session musician engineer and midi programmer, recording and touring Europe with a number of successful bands. After taking a music degree at Salford University Ian began scoring video game soundtracks such as “Starlancer”, “Lego Harry Potter”, “Star Trek Invasion”. In 2001 he worked closely with Nokia on their ringtone technology including the arrangement for the well-known Nokia default ringtone. In 2003 he wrote and produced a no.1 hit record “Complicated” in Luxembourg with Icelandic artist Thorunn. Ian has since gone on to simultaneously score numerous video games and TV documentaries and series. His video game career spans over 100 titles including more recently Lego: Dimensions, Walking With Dinosaurs, F1 2014, Valiant Hearts, Total War Attila, Napoleon Total War (earning him an Ivor Novello), Batman Begins, Harry Potter, Star Trek, X-Men2, Predator Concrete Jungle, Battlefield 1943, Bionicle Heroes. TV documentaries and series include “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” ,“The Great British Sewing Bee” for BBC2, "Daredevils” for Ch4, “Survival: Tales From The Wild” for ITV. Ian recently won a prestigious Ivor Novello award in 2011 for his work on “Napoleon: Total War”.

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Born 1969 in London, Ian Livingstone has been a professional media composer since 1994. Whilst classically trained from the age of 5 and having a background as a successful pop / dance music producer and session musician, Ian is one of the new breed of composers who is able to shift comfortably from big powerful symphonic scores for full orchestra, to cutting edge electronica.¶
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Over the years, Ian has worked with many of Europe's leading classical musicians and orchestras such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He is able to draw from his extensive experience working on many high-profile projects utilising his state of the art dolby registered surround 5.1 studio.¶
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Ian has previously been commissioned to compose for many advertising, video game, feature film and TV projects for major clients such as Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Saatchi and Warner Bros.

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Ian Livingstone is a multi-instrumentalist who began his professional career as session musician engineer and midi programmer, recording and touring Europe with a number of successful bands. ¶
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After taking a music degree at Salford University Ian began scoring video game soundtracks such as “Starlancer”, “Lego Harry Potter”, “Star Trek Invasion”. In 2001 he worked closely with Nokia on their ringtone technology including the arrangement for the well-known Nokia default ringtone. In 2003 he wrote and produced a no.1 hit record “Complicated” in Luxembourg with Icelandic artist Thorunn. ¶
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Ian has since gone on to simultaneously score numerous video games and TV documentaries and series. His video game career spans over 100 titles including more recently Lego: Dimensions, Walking With Dinosaurs, F1 2014, Valiant Hearts, Total War Attila, Napoleon Total War (earning him an Ivor Novello), Batman Begins, Harry Potter, Star Trek, X-Men2, Predator Concrete Jungle, Battlefield 1943, Bionicle Heroes.¶
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TV documentaries and series include “Big Fat Gypsy Weddings” ,“The Great British Sewing Bee” for BBC2, "Daredevils” for Ch4, “Survival: Tales From The Wild” for ITV.¶
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Ian recently won a prestigious Ivor Novello award in 2011 for his work on “Napoleon: Total War”.

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view changes	2	Jul 11, 2019	Biography	Ian Livingstone (11)	Approved	minor edit
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