Personal Info
Geoff Knorr
Geoff Knorr is an American composer of music for media and the concert hall. He has worked as a composer, orchestrator, sound designer, and mixing engineer on many video game titles, including Civilization VI, Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Civilization V, among others. His recent work on the Civilization series has garnered numerous industry nominations and awards. Notably, the soundtrack for Civilization: Beyond Earth won the 2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award. His music has been performed by the National Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Geoff also teaches an introductory course in sound and music for video games at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.
Geoff is a graduate of the Peabody Institute, having received a BM and MM in Music Composition and BM in Recording Arts and Sciences. While at Peabody, he studied with composers Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Hersch.
United States
Work
2020 BAFTA Game Beyond Entertainment Nominee (entire development team)
2020 G.A.N.G. Awards Best Original Soundtrack Nominee
2020 G.A.N.G. Awards Best Original Choral Composition Nominee for “Maori – The Atomic Era”
2019 G.A.N.G. Awards Best Original Choral Composition Nominee for “Cree – The Atomic Era (The Drums of Poundmaker)”
2017 G.A.N.G. Awards Music of the Year Nominee (Civilization VI)
2016 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards – 2015 Video Game Score of the Year Nominee (Beyond Earth – Rising Tide)
2015 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media Nominee (Beyond Earth – Rising Tide)
2015 ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards – 2014 Video Game Score of the Year Nominee (Beyond Earth)
2015 Cue Awards Best Score: Video Game Nominee (Beyond Earth – Rising Tide)
2015 Movie Music UK Best Video Game Score Nominee (Beyond Earth – Rising Tide)
2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media (Beyond Earth)
2014 Cue Awards Best Score – Video Game (Beyond Earth)
2014 Cue Awards Best Cue (“The Future of Mankind” from Beyond Earth)
2014 Cue Awards Best Theme (“A New Beginning” from Beyond Earth)
2014 Cue Awards Best Overall Score Nominee (Beyond Earth)
2014 Movie Music UK Best Video Game Score (Beyond Earth)
2009 Minnesota Orchestra Composer’s Institute Participant
2009 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Competition, Honorable Mention
2007 NACUSA Young Composers Competition, Honorable Mention
2004 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise & Fall
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
Civilization: Beyond Earth – Rising Tide
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Ashes of the Singularity
Galactic Civilizations III
Civilization V: Brave New World
Jon Shafer’s At The Gates
Haunted Hollow
Civilization V: God and Kings
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress
Civilization World
Sid Meier’s Civilization V
Civilization IV – Beyond The Sword
Independent
Firaxis Games – Composer/Sound Designer
