Award-Winning Composer Winifred Phillips
Winifred Phillips is a BAFTA nominated composer whose credits include titles in eight of the biggest and best franchises in gaming: Assassin's Creed, God of War, Jurassic World, Lineage, LittleBigPlanet, The Sims, Total War, and Wizardry. Most recently, Phillips won a Telly Award, two NYX Game Award Gold Medals and a Global Music Award for her music for the video game Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. Phillips' other games include Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Homefront: The Revolution, Spore Hero, Speed Racer, and projects in other blockbuster IPs such as DC Comics, Shrek, and The Da Vinci Code (among others). Phillips' scores have received numerous awards, including the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Music Composition, six Game Audio Network Guild Awards (including Music of the Year), and four Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Phillips has given lectures at the Library of Congress, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Audio Engineering Society, the Game Developers Conference, and the Montreal International Game Summit, among many others. Phillips' bestselling book, A Composer's Guide to Game Music, is published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.