Fabian Del Priore

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Fabian Del Priore (* 27th of May, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a composer, arranger and sound designer. He has dedicated his entire life to the world of music, for example he started composing on the Commodore C64 home computer, collected synthesizers since he was very young and took private piano lessons for over ten years. Also, he has become an established and critically acclaimed tracker musician under the nickname of "Rapture".

But it was not before the age of 16 until his career as a professional game musician started; After sending a demo tape to "Vision Media", a German software company and subsidiary of Chris Hülsbeck's own firm, synSONIQ Records, Fabian subsequently became a freelancing composer, arranger and sound designer at Chris' company for computer- and video games.

In the same year, still counting a mere 16 years of age, Fabian already experienced his big breakthrough; he composed his first computer game soundtrack which was over 60 Minutes of CD audio- and midi Music for Blue Byte's Extreme Assault, a first-person shooter / helicopter action game for PC DOS / Windows platforms. Fabian produced the biggest part of the soundtrack in co-operation with Chris Huelsbeck. Being one of the most well-known and best-selling Computer Games in 1997, it gained excellent reviews with very high music and sound ratings as well, which gave Fabian more than enough motivation to pursue his career.

As a consequence, Fabian was gradually involved in numerous video and computer games and produced soundtracks for games like Menateus, the official computer game for the Expo 2000 World Exhibition, the award-winning Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard by Funatics Development, Cold Zero: The Last Stand by JoWooD, Hotel Giant or Chicago 1930 by Spellbound. He has since spent parts of the so-earned money on building a professional midi / audio production studio where he is still working on game soundtracks, music for multimedia, television, radio and other productions.

At the end of 1999, he met producer Thomas Böcker and it didn't take long until they had the idea to create Merregnon, a world wide project where renowned composers from the computer games and the demo music scene were invited to accompany characters from an original fantasy story. They were asked to describe the adventures and the surroundings of the characters through music in orchestral style. The result of their work has been put together on an exclusive CD which gained enormous international success. In spring 2004, the highly anticipated second part of the Merregnon Trilogy was released. During his work, Fabian gained extensive knowledge and experience in orchestration and in writing scores for Symphony Orchestras. He worked together with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra), for example for the Merregnon 2 soundtrack CD.

Furthermore, Fabian was musically involved in the first symphonic game music concert in the world (outside of Japan), which was the opening concert of the Games Convention 2003, the biggest trade show for computer and video games in Europe, and took place on August 20th, 2003 in the famous Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany. Over 2.000 People, including press, television, media and audience, visited the concert and gave it lots of rave reviews. Among many other famous game compositions, Fabian composed and arranged two music pieces for the concert, the first part of the Merregnon 2 Suite and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker by Nintendo. The concert has been performed live by the well-known Czech National Symphony Orchestra. In the following year, the second symphonic game music concert took place in Leipzig as part of the "Games Convention 2004" opening ceremony, performed by the Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra, where Fabian produced three music pieces: The Secret of Monkey Island, Turrican and Metal Gear Solid and worked as synthesizer programmer for the concert.

In August 2005, the third Games Convention concert was held, again in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, where Fabian was responsible for the musical arrangement of Chrono Cross.

In 2003, "Merregnon Studios", a renowned label for high quality computer and video game soundtracks, had been formed where Fabian is active as the Lead Composer and is still doing music for computer- and video games, soundtrack CDs and multimedia projects of all kinds.

1 Video Game References
2 Discography
3 Concert Events
4 External links

[edit] Video Game References

Excerpts of Fabian Del Priore's Video Game Projects:

Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard
Extreme Assault
Chicago 1930
Cold Zero: No Mercy
Hotel Giant
Inspector Gadget
Northland
8th Wonder of the World
Menateus (EXPO 2000)
Elkware (30 mobile games)
Emergency: Fighters For Life
Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside
Stealth Combat
Viper
Wargames
X: Beyond the Frontier
X: tension
X: Gold

[edit] Discography

Excerpts of Fabian Del Priore's CD Discography:

1997 - Worms 2 Soundtrack
1997 - Incubation Soundtrack
1997 - Frankfurt Beat (Yellow Box)
1997 - Extreme Assault Soundtrack
1998 - Feels Like Paradise
1998 - Obsession
2000 - Merregnon Soundtrack Vol. 1
2000 - Interstellar Harmony Vol. 2
2001 - Back in Time 3: A Space Odyssey
2001 - Back in Time 3: A Space Odyssey + Bonus CD
2002 - Remix 64 Vol. 1
2002 - Immortal 2
2004 - Merregnon Soundtrack Vol. 2
2005 - Revival ST
2005: Merregnon Soundtrack Vol. 2 Japanese Edition
2006 - Immortal 3
2006 - Rapture Of The Deep - Essentials (iTunes album)
2006 - Project Majestic Mix - Ambience

[edit] Concert Events

GC - Games Convention Game Music Concerts 2003, 2004 and 2005
Four school concerts featuring video game music titled "Heroes of Imagination" (2006)
Play! A Video Game Symphony (first worldwide Video Game Concert Tour, starting 2006).