Jeff Broadbent is an American multimedia composer, musician, and music producer. He has won several Hollywood Music in Media Awards and a G.A.N.G. Award for composing music for video games including PlanetSide 2, Resident Evil 3, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, among others. He composes music for film and television as well, such as Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.
Early life and education Jeff Broadbent began taking piano and classical alto saxophone lessons at 8 years of age and later learned to play the guitar and drums. At 16 years old he began music theory and composing music. He attended Brigham Young University, where he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in music composition, as well as studying film scoring and video game scoring at UCLA.
Career Broadbent is a composer, multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboards, guitar, guitarViol bass, percussion, saxophone), and music producer. He began working in the video game industry in 2009 and has composed and produced music scores for Bigpoint, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros.'s video games. He has worked with composers, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe and has won numerous awards for composing and producing music for video games. He composed music for, Call of Duty: Mobile, Resident Evil 3, and Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor, among others, and for film and television such as X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Lazarus Effect, and others.
He cites his musical influences as composers, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, as well as modern composers, Schoenberg, Morton Feldman, Tōru Takemitsu, and others.
Video Game Music 2022 – Call of Duty: Mobile – Original Game Soundtrack – Composer 2022 – Honor of Kings – 7th Anniversary Vinyl – Composer 2020 – Terraria: Otherworld – Official Soundtrack – Composer 2020 – Resident Evil 3 – Soundtrack – Composer, arranger 2020 – Honor of Kings Original Game – Soundtrack Vol. 1 – Composer 2020 – Resident Evil: Resistance – Composer 2019 – PlanetSide Arena – Composer 2019 – Grid – Original Soundtrack – Audio Design 2018 – Extinction (video game) – Composer 2018 – Arena of Valor – Soundtrack – Composer 2016 – Champions of Anteria – Original Game – Soundtrack – Composer 2016 – Assassin's Creed Identity – Composer 2016 – Drakensang Online: Rise of Balor – Original Soundtrack – Composer 2016 – Gunjack 2: End of Shift – Composer 2015 – EVE: Gunjack – Composer 2015 – Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Official Soundtrack – Performer 2015 – Moonrise – Composer 2014 – Dawngate – Composer 2012 – PlanetSide 2 – Composer 2012 – I Am Alive – Composer 2011 – Marvel Avengers Alliance 2011 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Original Score – Composer
Awards 2023 – Peacekeeper Elite (Game for Peace) – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2022 – League of Legends: Wild Rift (Superhero Jayce Trailer) – Best Song/Score- Trailer (Video Game) – Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2018 – Extinction – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2016 – Arena of Valor – Best Music in a Casual/Social Game – G.A.N.G. Awards 2016 – Assassin's Creed Identity – Best Mobile Video Game Song/Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2015 – Wei Lai Zhan Chang – Best Mobile Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2013 – Planet Side 2 – Original Game Soundtrack – Global Music Awards 2013 – PlanetSide 2 – Best Video Game Score – Hollywood Music in Media Awards
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