Roger Neill
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Roger Neill is a contemporary film and television composer, best known for his Academy Award-winning film “Beginners” and his music for the long-running Fox animated series “King of the Hill.”
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Neill, holds a PhD from Harvard in music, and has a vast award-winning music catalog, including more than twenty feature films, hundreds of television episodes, video games, TV commercials, and even an operetta.
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Roger has been worked extensively in game music, primarily in association with game composer Jesper Kyd. Together they have collaborated on many game titles, such as Assassins Creed: Revelations, Borderlands 2, Darksiders 2, State of Decay, Heroes and Generals, and many others. Jesper and Neill also collaborated on “Métal Hurlant Chronicles,” a Franco-Belgian science fiction television series.
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As an arranger, orchestrator, conductor and collaborator, Roger has worked with a many familiar faces in the recording industry, including Beck, Michael Jackson, The Kronos Quartet, John Legend, Sondre Lerche, Mellow, Natalie Merchant, Spoon, Stereolab and David Sylvian. Roger has enjoyed a long-term relationship with the French electronica duo AIR, on record and on stage. He was conductor and arranger for a legendary orchestral concert with AIR at the Hollywood Bowl, followed by a similar concert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris.
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A Southern California native, Roger was born in El Cajon, a cultural backwater of eastern San Diego County. He began play music at the age of nine, electric guitars in garage bands, flute in youth orchestras. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Southern California, followed by graduate studies at Harvard.
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