VOCES8 Foundation Advisory Board
Stephen Barton
A former chorister in Winchester Cathedral Choir, Stephen Barton writes music primarily for video games, film and television. His extensive credits include the entire Titanfall franchise, including the battle royale game Apex Legends for which he has written all the music over nine seasons, with well over 100 million players worldwide.
Other recent projects include Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, which received the Society of Composers and Lyricists inaugural award in 2020, as well as the "Music of the Year" award at the GANG Awards. Other major recent projects include Watch Dogs: Legion, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Battle Bound and a presently untitled Star Wars project.
He has contributed music to over four dozen major feature film and television projects, collaborating closely with Michael Apted, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dan Ireland, Tom Dolby and others. He is recognized as an expert in the emerging field of spatial and immersive audio (including 3D Audio, Ambisonics and Dolby Atmos), consulting to BBC Worldwide, Qualcomm, Dolby, and Syng. He is a member of the Abbey Road Spatial Audio forum, and on the immersive audio judging panel for the Grammy awards.