Geoff Zanelli
What to know
Geoff Zanelli is the composer for music featured in Squadron 42. He has also composed the music for several ship commercials. Key sections include Music, Other works, and Early Life.
Geoff Zanelli is the composer for music featured in Squadron 42. He has also composed the music for several ship commercials.
Fro Squadron 42 alone, he estimates 10 to 16 hours of music.
Music
| Name | Game Type Source |
|---|---|
| Squadron 42 CitizenCon Trailer | Squadron 42 Trailer geoffzanelli.com |
| The Pioneer | Star Citizen Ship Commercial geoffzanelli.com |
| Old Man Teaser | Squadron 42 Trailer geoffzanelli.com |
| Polaris Trailer | Squadron 42/Star Citizen Trailer/Ship Commercial geoffzanelli.com |
| Bishop Speech | Squadron 42 Cinematic geoffzanelli.com |
| Constellation | Star Citizen Ship Commercial geoffzanelli.com |
| Cutlass Tango | Star Citizen Ship Commercial geoffzanelli.com |
Other works
While studying he started working during his summers as an intern for movie composer Hans Zimmer, until her graduated. When Geoff first met him in 1994, Hans Zimmer was writing the Lion King Score
After graduating Geoff Zanelli worked as assistant to John Powell for three years.
Around 1999-2000 Geoff Zanelli went freelance as a composer.
He wrote music for movies alongside Hans Zimmer then ended up working on movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean.
He worked on The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor and Rango.
The first film he scored on his own was an indie film in 2005 called House of D by David Duchovny.
He wrote the music for the movie Outlander in which Chris Roberts was one of the producers and John Schimmel was president of production in 2008.
He was one of the three music composers for the TV series The Pacific which also featured Hans Zimmer.
Other jobs where he was the main composer include Disturbia, Hitman, The Odd Life of Timothy Green and Into the West.
He did three Call of Duty spinoffs for the Nintendo DS, a Shrek game, and Everquest Champions of Norath.
Early Life
He started writing music as a teenager in a band in Westminster, California. Music came relatively late in his life.He didn’t play an instrument until he was nearly 16, but he got bit by the bug right away and within the year he was playing guitar in bands and writing gratuitously long instrumental sections.
He never liked the constraints of songwriting. He looked to longer forms of music or things that could evolve more, or be more outside the box. That led him to media like film or games.
Seeing Willy Wonka as a child was his first realization that writing music for a movie was a job and that someone somewhere had to be doing it.
He went to Berklee College of Music in Boston on scholarship in 1992 with two majors in Film Scoring and Music Production & Engineering.
Trivia
- The first video game he played was Adventure on Atari 2600.
- In the early days of Starcraft before Brood War came out, he was ranked in the top 100 worldwide.
Quote
When I said "I hope you like saxophones," I meant "I hope you like bagpipes." Turns out, you do! -Geoff Zanelli
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