Jesper Kyd

Jesper Jakobson Kyd (born February 3, 1972) is a Danish video game and film score composer. Kyd combines sounds of dark ambient, electronic and symphonic music and has won many awards. He is also notable for his early work in the Amiga demoscene, where he composed a large amount of music in his teenage years, in particular a ten year long set of gatherings known as "The Party". Today, he is best known for composing music for the Hitman series, the Assassin's Creed series, and, together with Rom Di Prisco, the soundtrack for Unreal Tournament 3. Kyd started playing piano at an early age. Later, he took several years of training in classical guitar, note reading, choir singing and classical composition for piano. However, he is mostly...