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Inon Zur (, ) is an Israeli-born American music composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 80 video games, which include Dragon Age, EverQuest, Fallout, Prince of Persia, Star Trek, the Syberia series, and Starfield. He has received multiple nominations, including three BAFTAs, and has won several awards, including an Emmy. Various music awards for his soundtracks on Men of Valor (2004), Crysis (2007), (2009), (2019), (2023), Starfield (2024) and Rise of the Ronin (2024).
Zur has made dozens of cinematic scores for trailers. His last full movie soundtrack to date was that of 2014's Reclaim. He has worked on a few television series since then; his last traditional television soundtrack was for Ghost Whisperer in 2007, though he has composed music for webisode and Animated series since then. He continued to work on numerous video games, including in 2005 and Crysis in 2007. He has garnered several nominations for video game music awards, including his first win, for Men of Valor in the Best Original Instrumental track category of the 2004 Game Audio Network Guild awards.
Zur penned the original musical score for Crysis, Dragon Age, Fallout, Syberia, and Starfield franchises.
The most notable titles Zur has composed for have been Icewind Dale II (2002), EverQuest Online (2003), Men of Valor (2004), Crysis (2007), Fallout 3 (2008), Prince of Persia (2008), (2009), (2010), (2017), Dragon Age II (2011), Fallout 4 (2015), Fallout 76 (2018), (2019) and, most recently, Starfield (2023).
In an industry first, a dedicated concert of his music from was performed each evening at the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. The one-hour concert series was conducted by Zur and performed by The Hollywood Orchestra and Choir with the participation of The Lyris Quartet and solos from celebrated vocalist Aubrey Ashburn. He originally conducted and recorded the game with the London Philharmonia Orchestra and the Pinewood Singers Choir at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London.
In 2018, at the London venue the Eventim Apollo, Zur composed his different pieces from the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series during a live concert that Bethesda Game Studios co-hosted with the War Child (charity). The London Symphony Orchestra performed Zur's Starfield score at Bethesda's 10th Anniversary concert in 2021. The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra gave a 10-year concert on June 25, 2023, at The Game Awards, which featured well-known video game soundtracks. The concert included a rendition of Zur's Starfield theme.
Zur and Imagine Dragons went to tour together in March 2025. Zur composed with the Los Angeles Film Orchestra on music for Imagine Dragons' Hollywood Bowl concerts.
In the film industry Zur specializes on cinematic scoring for film trailers. He's worked with the likes of BMG Production Music on films such as the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, , The Hobbit, and . Including dozens of other film trailer music. He's also worked with NCSOUND on several video game projects.
His songs have often been covered by numerous artists. Raney Shockne and Elizaveta did a cover of Zur's Dragon Age: Origins "I am the One" song for . Zur was inducted into The Recording Academy as a new member in 2023.
Inon Zur and Imagine Dragons collaborative song Children of the Sky was part of the Lonestar Freedom Mission on the Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander, aiming to be the first song broadcast from the moon.
Zur typically is brought in to compose for a game once it is mostly complete, though he notes that that is earlier than for films and television—where nothing changes after he starts besides post-production effects—making video game music composition a more "flexible" process. He finds that it is "crucial" for him to play a game before he can compose music for it, even if it's only a development version. Rather than compose music based around the setting in the game where it will be played, Zur composes music around the emotion that he wants the player to feel at that point in the game. While he feels that music composition technology has come far enough in recent years to no longer be a limiting factor in his music, he does feel that the music budgets for games limit what he can create. Zur feels that he is considered in the industry to be a very fast composer, which he attributes to his tendency to compose music "intuitively", rather than spending a lot of time planning it out. When not composing, Zur likes to play video games, especially those he has composed for, as well as play basketball and spend time with his family. The types of projects that he would like to work on in the future that he has not yet done are children's games and soundtracks incorporating jazz music.
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| 2002 !scope="row" | Icewind Dale II | |
| 2003 !scope="row" | EverQuest | Additional music (DLC expansions Underfoot to The Broken Mirror) |
| 2004 !scope="row" | EverQuest II | Additional music (DLC Expansion) |
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| 2007 !scope="row" | Additional music; with Ian Livingstone & Jeremy Soule | |
| 2008 !scope="row" | Crysis Warhead | |
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| 2010 !scope="row" | ||
| 2011 !scope="row" | Rift | |
| 2012 !scope="row" | Guardians of Middle-earth | |
| 2013 !scope="row" | Sacred Citadel | |
| 2014 !scope="row" | Cinematics & one song | |
| 2015 !scope="row" | Fallout 4 | |
| 2016 !scope="row" | Hero's Song | |
| 2017 !scope="row" | Syberia III | |
| Additional music for console version | ||
| 2018 !scope="row" | with Dmitry V. Silantyev | |
| 2019 !scope="row" | ||
| 2020 !scope="row" | The Waylanders | |
| 2021 !scope="row" | Outriders | |
| 2022 !scope="row" | ||
| 2023 !scope="row" | Starfield | |
| 2024 !scope="row" | Rise of the Rōnin | |
| 2025 !scope="row" | Amerzone | |
| 2026 !scope="row" | Ashes of Creation | with Bear McCreary |
| Cancelled !scope="row" | Arena of Fate | |
| 1995 !scope="row" | Yellow Lotus | |
| 1997 !scope="row" | Ashes | |
| 1998 !scope="row" | The Refugee | |
| 2000 !scope="row" | Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force | |
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| 2002 !scope="row" | ||
| 2005 !scope="row" | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Trailer |
| 2006 !scope="row" | Annapolis | Trailer |
| 2007 !scope="row" | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Trailer |
| 2008 !scope="row" | The Tale of Despereaux | Trailer |
| 2009 !scope="row" | Drag Me to Hell | Trailer |
| 2010 !scope="row" | Short | |
| 2011 !scope="row" | Jane Eyre | Trailer |
| 2012 !scope="row" | The Hobbit | Trailer |
| 2013 !scope="row" | The Smurfs 2 | Trailer |
| 2014 !scope="row" | Reclaim | |
| 2015 !scope="row" | Welcome to Forever | Short |
| 2016 !scope="row" | Ghostbusters | Trailer |
| 2017 !scope="row" | Saber Rock | |
| 2018 !scope="row" | The Kindergarten Teacher | Trailer |
| 2019 !scope="row" | Knives Out | Trailer |
| 1994 !scope="row" | Valley of the Dolls | |
| 1995 !scope="row" | Big Bad Beetleborgs | |
| 1996 !scope="row" | The Vision of Escaflowne | |
| 1997 !scope="row" | Power Rangers Turbo | |
| 1998 !scope="row" | Ramadhan in Indonesia | |
| 1999 !scope="row" | Au Pair | Television film |
| 1999 !scope="row" | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | |
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| 2001 !scope="row" | Au Pair II | Television film |
| 2001-2002 !scope="row" | Digimon Tamers | Additional music |
| 2002-2003 !scope="row" | Digimon Frontier | |
| 2010 !scope="row" | The Walking Dead | Trailer |
| 2016 !scope="row" | Fallout: The Junktown Ranger | Short |
| 2017 !scope="row" | Legion | Trailer |
| 2022 !scope="row" | We Baby Bears | Additional music |
| 2023–present !scope="row" | Webisode Series | |
| 2024–present !scope="row" | Fallout | Theme Writer and Two episodes |
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| Best Live Performance Recording | Men of Valor | ||
| Best Original Soundtrack Album | Men of Valor | ||
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| Spike Video Game Awards | Best Original Score | Fallout 3 | |
| Golden Joystick Awards | Soundtrack of the Year | Fallout 3 | |
| Game Audio Network Guild | Best Original Vocal – Choral | Prince of Persia – "Menu Theme" | |
| Best Original Instrumental | Prince of Persia – "Healed Land" | ||
| Motion Picture Sound Editors | Best Sound Editing - Computer Entertainment | Crysis | |
| Best Original Score – Video Game | Dragon Age: Origins | ||
| Game Audio Network Guild | Music of the Year | Dragon Age: Origins | |
| Best Soundtrack Album | Dragon Age: Origins | ||
| Best Original Vocal – Pop | Dragon Age: Origins – "I Am the One" (High Fantasy Version) | ||
| Best Original Vocal – Pop | Dragon Age: Origins – "Lelianna's Song" | ||
| Movie Music UK Awards | Best Original Video Game Score | Dragon Age: Origins | |
| Game Audio Network Guild | Best Interactive Score | Crysis | |
| Best Original Song – Video Game | Dragon Age II – "Rogue Heart" | ||
| Spike Video Game Awards | Best Song In A Game | Dragon Age II – "I’m Not Calling You A Liar" | |
| 11th British Academy Games Awards | Music | ||
| Hollywood Music In Media Award | Best Original Song – Video Game | Sword Coast Legends – "The Path Of Destiny" | |
| Game Audio Network Guild | Vocal Theme – Video Game | Sword Coast Legends – "The Path Of Destiny" | |
| The Game Awards 2015 | Best Score/Soundtrack | Fallout 4 | |
| 12th British Academy Games Awards | Music | Fallout 4 | |
| GoldSpirit Awards | Best Original Score for a Videogame | Fallout 76 | |
| NYX Game Awards | Best Music for PC Game | Syberia: The World Before | |
| Hollywood Music in Media Award | Best Original Song/Score - Mobile Video Game | PUBG Mobile | |
| PS Blog Game of the Year Awards | Best Soundtrack | Rise of the Rōnin | |
| PlayStation Game Awards | Traditional Sound Award (Music) | Rise of the Rōnin |
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