Olivier Deriviere

Olivier Deriviere (born 26 December 1978) has studied composition and orchestration at the Nice Conservatoire (France). In 1999 he produced a solo album (Harry's Day) and started to write arrangements of film scores for the percussion quartet he founded at the Cagnes-sur-Mer Conservatoire. In 2000, he received a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music and went to Boston to study jazz and film scoring. Beside college, he spent a whole season with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. There, he interacted with composers and conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Ilan Volkov, and John Williams.

Composing for Video Games

Back in France he started to work for short movies and TV shows. In 2004 he earned the award of best soundtrack for his short movie "The Toast" at the Moviz Festival (www.moviz.com) as well as great reviews for his work on Obscure (hydravision/MC2). Gamespy reviewed the score: "You'll begin to notice the impressive and dare we say innovative qualities of this game possesses like the in-game music". This music was performed by the Children's choir of the Opéra national de Paris. In 2005 to extend the quality of the music production for Obscure's sequel (Obscure : the aftermath) Deriviere added the Boston Quartet, formed by Boston Symphony Orchestra members including the Concertmaster, Tamara Smirnova. In 2007 he earned the award of best soundtrack from the French developers festival and Obscure 2 reviews got great critics like IGN's : "Music is fantastic and evocative". Music from Obscure 2 was performed for the 2nd edition of "Games in concert" in Amsterdam by the Metropolitan Orchestra. Later, he started to work for Alone in the Dark and Grammy award winner The Mystery of Bulgarian voices choir to perform his music.

Discography

References

    Schweitzer, Vivien (26 December 2008). "Music - Classical Composers and Musicians Find New Opportunities in Video Games". New York Times. Retrieved 24 January 2010.  "Interview with Olivier Deriviere – Alone in the Dark soundtrack composer". www.en.game-ost.ru. Retrieved 24 January 2010. 

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