Thomas Bergersen

Thomas Jacob Bergersen (born 4 July 1980, Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian self-taught composer, multi-instrumentalist, and the co-founder of the production music company Two Steps From Hell. Bergersen's compositions have featured in many motion picture campaigns, such as Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Twilight Saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code, The Mummy, The Dark Knight, Tron: Legacy and hundreds more. Bergersen has scored over one thousand soundtracks and film trailers.[1]

Thomas Bergersen
Background information
Birth nameThomas Jacob Bergersen
Born (1980-07-04) 4 July 1980
OriginTrondheim, Norway
Occupation(s)Composer
Instruments
Years active2003 – present
Associated acts
Websitewww.thomasbergersen.com

Career

He started his musical career as a demoscener, writing tracked modules under the name Lioz in the group Index.[2][3][4] The release of a 2007 trance-genre single titled "Remember September" saw Bergersen team with fellow Norwegian artist Boom Jinx.[5]

In May 2010, Bergersen and his business partner, Nick Phoenix, released a debut public Epic Music Two Steps From Hell album titled Invincible, featuring some of their most popular tracks, including "Freedom Fighters", "Moving Mountains", and "Heart of Courage".[6] Several additional commercial album releases have since followed, including Archangel and SkyWorld.[7] Bergersen also performed in a 2013 live concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. In 2010 Bergersen composed the original music for the movie The Human Experience. The Soundtrack CD was released on 29 March 2011.

2011 saw the release of a solo-produced soundtrack from Thomas Bergersen, titled Illusions.[8] His second solo public album called Sun was released in September 2014. He has also released several commercial singles since 2011, including "Heart" and "The Hero in Your Heart," which were intended to provide disaster relief in the wake of the Tōhoku earthquake and Typhoon Haiyan, respectively.

In March 2020, the seven part album series Humanity was announced. Humanity is intended to be a seven part album series exploring all aspects of human emotion. On 1 July 2020, Humanity - Chapter I was released. Humanity - Chapter II was released on 11 November 2020, followed by Humanity - Chapter III on 6 May 2021, and Humanity - Chapter IV on 2 September 2021.

Personal life

He stated that he moved from Los Angeles to Miami, and then to Seattle between 2010 - 2014 (Sun album description). The song Cassandra on the album Sun was inspired by his then-girlfriend Cassandra. He considers himself a Gamer and played games such as Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Quake and Hitman: Absolution.[9]

Music

Bergersen claims to be influenced by many genres, ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Katy Perry. However, he stated that Gustav Mahler is among his primary influences. He dislikes the concept of Music genres, which he thinks limits music to certain structures for the purpose of classification. For this reason he generally avoids following genres and industry conventions and follows his own intuition instead.[10]

He draws inspiration from his personal emotions, for example joy, sadness or events in romantic relationships,[9] and anything unique and beautiful in his surroundings.[10]

Discography
Main article: Thomas Bergersen discography

Solo

Two Steps from Hell

Concerts
Date
14 June 2013 produced by Two Steps From Hell, conductor Petr Pololáník @ Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA
28 June 2014 produced and conducted by Ciprian Costin at Iași Palace of Culture, Romania (along Hans Zimmer's music)
27 April 2016 produced and conducted by Ciprian Costin at Bucharest Palace Hall, Romania (along Hans Zimmer's music)
20 April 2018 conducted by Petr Pololáník at Forum Karlín, Prague, Czech Republic

performed by Film Music Prague orchestra, with Thomas Bergersen performing on his violin and on the piano[11]

References
  1. "China's new video of its naval-aviation forces blows 'Top Gun' away". BusinessInsider. 2018.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 August 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "LioZ - Nectarine Demoscene Radio". Scenemusic.net. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  4. "Amiga Music Preservation". Amp.dascene.net. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  5. "Boom Jinx feat. Thomas J. Bergersen – Remember September (CDr) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Music". Two Steps from Hell.
  8. "Illusions". Thomas Bergersen official site. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  9. "Interview: Thomas Bergersen, Composer". STARBURST Magazine. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  10. Wright, Chris (6 May 2016). "Meet Thomas Bergersen — Master of Powerful, Epic Music". Gear Patrol. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  11. "Panelové diskuze a workshopy".
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