Fabian Del Priore

Alt. Name: Rapture
Date of Birth: May 27, 1978
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Website: www.delpriore.de

Biography / Trivia

Fabian Del Priore is a game music composer and arranger based in Frankfurt, Germany. Having taken piano lessons for ten years and collected synthesizers, he became an established demoscene musician under the alias Rapture. At the age of 16, he impressed veteran game music composer Chris Hülsbeck with a demo tape and was subsequently hired to work for his music production studio. After debuting with 1996's Menateus, he led the award-winning orchestral score to the shooter Extreme Assault and produced sound effects on several subsequent titles. After leaving the company, Del Priore engaged in high-profile collaborations on Worms 2, WarGames, and Viper in addition to further sound effects work.

In 1999, Del Priore and producer Thomas Boecker inspired the Merregnon project together. This three part album series features orchestral music created by various demo-scene musicians to tell an epic yet personal fantasy story. During the project, Del Priore gained experience orchestrating for eminent orchestras such as the Prague Symphony and New York Philharmonic. The CDs have been astounding critical successes noted for its rich compositions and beautifully designed booklets. With such high-profile projects behind him, Del Priore continued to collaborate with major game companies creating scores such as Stealth Combat, Inspector Gadget, and Hotel Giant from a personal studio. He has also been the lead composer of the Cultures series of titles, noted for their interactive sound design.

In 2003, Del Priore was appointed lead composer of the music production company Merregnon Studios. This resulted in him arranging various items on the multi-title Symphonic Game Music Concert series that occurred annually at Leipzig from 2003 to 2007. His arrangements were Merregnon II, The Wind Waker, Monkey Island, Turrican, Metal Gear Solid, and Chrono Cross. Later Del Priore's Merregnon music featured on the inspiring school concert series Heroes of Imagination alongside classical pieces. Also on behalf of Merregnon Studios, Del Priore contributed arrangements to the world concert tour PLAY! A Video Game Symphony. His music has also been featured on the Immortal and Revival ST tribute CDs and Chris Hülsbeck's latest album Number Nine.

Since 2006, Del Priore became employed by Germany's leading game music production company Dynamedion. This has resulted in his music being featured in a variety of DS puzzle and lifestyle games and two flash games. Between these projects, Del Priore has engaged in film scoring for the first time and has also featured in two iTunes trance albums. He is currently working on numerous more DS projects, including Giana Sisters DS, where he will mix bouncy Commodore 64 arrangements of with original compositions. During his 12 years as a game musician, Del Priore has contributed to many impressive achievements, most notably Extreme Assault, Cultures, Merregnon, and the Symphonic Game Music Concert series. 

Games (32)

Year Title Platform Composer
1996 Menateus PC Fabian Del Priore, Chris Hülsbeck
1997 Extreme Assault PC Fabian Del Priore, Chris Hülsbeck
1998 Mühle Online PC Fabian Del Priore
1998 Typherra PC Fabian Del Priore, Chris Hülsbeck
1998 Viper PSX Thomas Detert, 2dB Music Production, Fabian Del Priore
1998 WarGames PC, PSX Tommy Tallarico, Fabian Del Priore
1998 Worms 2 PC Bjørn Lynne, Fabian Del Priore
2001 Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Crazy Maze PSX Fabian Del Priore
2002 Cultures 2: The Gates of Asgard PC Fabian Del Priore, Thomas Herrmann, Lars Hammer
2002 Hotel Giant PC Bjørn Lynne, Fabian Del Priore, Markus Holler
2002 Northland PC Fabian Del Priore, Lars Hammer
2002 Stealth Combat: Ultimate War PC Fabian Del Priore
2003 8th Wonder of the World PC Fabian Del Priore, Lars Hammer, Henning Nugel, Ingo Nugel
2003 Blockforge PC Fabian Del Priore
2003 Bump Over PC Fabian Del Priore
2003 Chicago 1930 PC Fabian Del Priore, Markus Holler
2003 Cultures: Die Abenteuerbox PC Fabian Del Priore, Lars Hammer
2003 Cultures: Die Saga PC Fabian Del Priore, Lars Hammer
2006 Mission in Snowdriftland PC Fabian Del Priore
2007 Chick Chick Boom PC Fabian Del Priore
2007 CrossworDS DS Fabian Del Priore
2007 Think: Logik Trainer DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 City Life DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 Crazy Machines DS Fabian Del Priore, Alexander Röder, Tilman Sillescu, Markus Schmidt
2008 Das Verrückte Labyrinth DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 Germany's Next Top Model DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 RTL Winter Sports 2009 DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 Solitär DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 The Woodleys Summer Sports DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 Tricky Physics DS Fabian Del Priore
2008 Was ist was: Versunkene Schätze DS Fabian Del Priore
2009 Giana Sisters DS DS Fabian Del Priore

Games - Other Credits (6)

Year Title Platform Composer
1998 Emergency: Fighters for Life PC Joachim Schafer, Gerd Günter Hoffman
1998 Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside PC Christopher Franke, Volker Stamer, Dieter Rottermund
1999 X: Beyond the Frontier PC Thomas Egeskov Petersen, Thomas Mogensen, Chris Hülsbeck
2000 X-Tension PC Thomas Egeskov Petersen, Thomas Mogensen
2001 X-Gold PC Thomas Egeskov Petersen, Thomas Mogensen
2003 Cold Zero: No Mercy PC Adam Skorupa, Markus Holler

Albums (1)

Year Title Type
1997 Extreme Assault Original Game Soundtrack CD

Albums - As Arranger (7)

Year Title Type
1997 Worms 2 Original Soundtrack CD
2001 Back in Time 3 CD
2002 Immortal 2 CD
2002 Remix64 CD
2005 Revival ST CD
2006 Immortal 3 CD
2009 PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! CD

Albums - Non-VGM (4)

Year Title Type
2000 Merregnon Soundtrack - Volume 1 CD
2004 Merregnon Soundtrack - Volume 2 CD
2007 Number Nine CD
2008 Out of Silence CD

Reviews

» PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! (by Chris)

Links

» Interview (2009-02-22)

» Rapture Music
» Merregnon Studios

Added by Chris on Aug 2, 2008 10:10 PM Edited by Rimo on Feb 22, 2009 06:37 PM