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Winifred Phillips, Composer, Generations Productions LLC
Music Connection Magazine hailed Winifred Phillips as a “Superstar of video game music.” Her credits include games in five of the most popular franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, God of War, Total War, LittleBigPlanet and The Sims. Phillips’ music has been featured in trailers for blockbuster movies such as Avengers Endgame and The Jungle Book, as well as television programs such as Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. Music from Phillips’ award-winning Assassin’s Creed Liberation score is currently being performed live by a top 80-piece orchestra and choir as part of the Assassin’s Creed Symphony World Tour, which kicked off in June 2019 with its Paris premiere. Phillips recently delivered the first video game music composition lecture ever given at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Invited to speak by the Music Division of the Library of Congress, Phillips delivered the concluding presentation to a packed lecture hall in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress during their premiere event celebrating video game music. Phillips’ enthusiastic fans showered her with questions during a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything session that hit the Reddit front page, received 14.9 thousand upvotes, and became one of the most popular gaming AMAs ever hosted on Reddit. Among her 18 soundtrack albums is the first videogame soundtrack ever released by WaterTower Music, the film music record label of Warner Bros. Pictures. Phillips’ most recently released project is the The Dark Eye: Book of Heroes – a game based on the most popular European fantasy RPG. She also composed the music for the 2020 Apple Arcade release of the Spyder adventure game. Phillips is the author of the award-winning bestselling book, A Composer's Guide to Game Music, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. Phillips has received an Interactive Achievement Award / D.I.C.E. Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, three Hollywood Music in Media Awards, six Game Audio Network Guild Awards, five Global Music Awards, an IGN Best Score Award, a GameSpot Best Music Award, a GameZone Score of the Year Award, a GameFocus Award, and three Gracie Awards from the Alliance of Women in Media.