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A multiple award-winning composer, Jason Hayes is best known for his long-standing relationship with Blizzard Entertainment. You can hear his music in all of Blizzard’s recent games set in the popular worlds of StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft. Most recently, he was the lead composer on World of WarCraft. Among other contributions, his specialty has been to write the musical score for the widely acclaimed short animated movies produced by the Blizzard Film Department. In this context, he’s won the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) award for “Best Cinematic / Cut-scene Audio” two years in a row.
He began his interest in music and interactive media as a child, when he would construct elaborate interactive adventure games for his friends that contained their own musical score using his tape recorder. He’s always had an interest in puzzle solving and creative emotional expression putting music to picture- a good match for working in the computer game industry.
Jason was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a young adult he discovered his passion for music composition while studying piano with the renowned concert pianist, Dr. William Chapman-Nyaho. He started a band of his own and started playing in local clubs. His talents became known in the local music scene, so when the recording artist “Kyper” was looking for a back up band for his national tour, Jason’s band was asked to fill the spot. After touring around the nation for a year, Jason resumed his college studies as a music composition major at the University of North Texas. Soon after, he married the love of his life Tiffany and decided to move to California to enter the professional world.
He began his interest in music and interactive media as a child, when he would construct elaborate interactive adventure games for his friends that contained their own musical score using his tape recorder. He’s always had an interest in puzzle solving and creative emotional expression putting music to picture- a good match for working in the computer game industry.
Jason was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a young adult he discovered his passion for music composition while studying piano with the renowned concert pianist, Dr. William Chapman-Nyaho. He started a band of his own and started playing in local clubs. His talents became known in the local music scene, so when the recording artist “Kyper” was looking for a back up band for his national tour, Jason’s band was asked to fill the spot. After touring around the nation for a year, Jason resumed his college studies as a music composition major at the University of North Texas. Soon after, he married the love of his life Tiffany and decided to move to California to enter the professional world.
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LordRavencrest wrote:
Orgimmar is the best!!
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MaidenSlayer wrote:
WoW soundtrack is one of the best.
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Unknown_entity wrote:
WoW soundtrack is just wonderful, thank you for it
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Kolo-vorot wrote:
Cinematic composer
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Vladalucard wrote:
Oh man, Stormwind is EPIC... how delighting.
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Crystal_Maiden wrote:
terdassil ♥
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tanifilc wrote:
no
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mcvpn wrote:
Seasons of War is the best one. O_O
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Crystal_Maiden wrote:
Stormwind ftw!
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Crystal_Maiden wrote:
A Call to Arms ♥ *-*
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Japperman wrote:
Jason Hayes is a great composer. I really hope one day he'll return to make more music for the Warcraft franchise.
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Elintasokas wrote:
Stormwind theme 01:35 is so fucking epic.
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retorique wrote:
Everytime I hear the Stormwind theme it makes me want to return to the game. But I swore I would not throw away months of rehab.
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Bartollius wrote:
The best song ever is "Doomhammer Legacy" btw This man is GENIUS
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Marcusml333 wrote:
You gotta scrobble some more SC!
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Novskij wrote:
Not sure i heard music like this anywhere but from him. Do prefer his music for WoW.
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ysw0618 wrote:
I ask a favor. Come back to a Blizzard company. Please.
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ysw0618 wrote:
this man is genius. but Russell brower(Composer by BC and Woltk) is Foor!!
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salateur wrote:
wotlk is easy.
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Elanor1989 wrote:
..and I read few reviews in computer games magazine and they were saying otherwise ;)
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