WINIFRED PHILLIPS is an Interactive Achievement Award-winning composer.
Her latest project was "Spore Hero" from Electronic Arts. Working with award-winning music producer Winnie Waldron, Winifred composed the music for a new, epic adventure in the blockbuster "Spore" franchise. The "Spore Hero" videogame was released on the Nintendo Wii in October of 2009, and the soundtrack album was released simultaneously with the videogame on October 6th. Winifred's music for Spore Hero was a Hollywood Music in Media Awards finalist. In its review of the soundtrack album of Spore Hero, Film Score Monthly wrote, "Composer Winifred Phillips has succeeded in spades. Exciting and catchy."
Prior to "Spore Hero", Winifred composed the music for the video game "SimAnimals™", the newest game to join the blockbuster Sims™ family, released on January 21st 2009 by Electronic Arts. The soundtrack album was released on January 13th 2009 via such retail sources as iTunes, Amazon.com and many others.
Prior to "SimAnimals™", Winifred created the musical score for SPEED RACER: THE VIDEOGAME, released in May 2008 to coincide with the premiere of the movie directed by the Wachowski brothers and starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon and Matthew Fox.
Winifred Phillips wrote 100% of the music in SPEED RACER: THE VIDEOGAME, and was thrilled to complete her original musical score for the videogame well before the music for the Wachowski brothers blockbuster movie was recorded. With complete creative freedom at her disposal, Winifred created a thoroughly original musical score, fusing rock, classical and retro beats into a truly unique game soundtrack.
Before her work on the "Speed Racer" videogame, Winifred wrote the music for the video game "SHREK THE THIRD", which was released in May 2007 to coincide with the blockbuster movie premiere.
In addition, Winifred wrote the complete orchestral and choral score for The Da Vinci Code™ videogame (2K Games / Collective Studios). The game was a tie-in to the blockbuster movie directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks.
Her other recent video game projects include the movie tie-in game Charlie and the Chocolate Factory developed by High Voltage and published by 2K Games/ Warner Bros., and the smash hit action-adventure epic God of War from Sony Computer Entertainment America.
God of War enjoyed an extremely successful release, and has won numerous awards. For her work on this game, Winifred has received an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences in the category of "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition". The music she wrote for God of War has also received the "Best Original Score" Award from IGN, the "Best Original Score" Award from GameZone, the "Best Original Music" Award from Gamespot, and four Game Audio Network Guild Awards, including the prestigious "Music of the Year" Award. In an article about the music from God of War, Cinescape Magazine hailed Winifred as a "goddess of music!"
The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory game is a tie-in with the hit summer movie, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. An accomplished multimedia composer and vocal performer, Winifred wrote over seventy tracks for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory game, all of which were personally approved by Tim Burton. In addition to her role as sole composer, Winifred performed all the vocal parts of the women’s choir featured extensively in the score of the game. GameZone called Winifred's music for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory "Expertly written, brilliantly composed."
Winifred produced, narrated and was the composer of the award-winning “Radio Tales” series, in which she wrote the musical scores for over one hundred music drama programs first aired via National Public Radio and currently broadcast each week to the over seven million subscribers of XM Satellite Radio (Sonic Theater, channel 163). For her work on this series, Winifred is a four-time winner of the coveted Gracie Award for artistic excellence and outstanding achievement from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television.
In addition, Winifred is a New York Festivals WorldMedalist, and has been honored by the NFCB Golden Reel Awards and the Audio Publishers Association Awards. For her career achievements, she has received multiple Biographee Awards from Marquis Who's Who in the illustrious publications "Who's Who in the World", "Who's Who in America", "Who's Who
of American Women" and “Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders”.
Publishers Weekly has praised Winifred's work as “Sensational!” and Billboard Magazine has called it “A Real Treat!” while AudioFile Magazine called it "Magnificent!" National Public Radio hailed her work as “A Musical Tour-De-Force!”
For the past four years Winifred has served as a nominating committee panelist for the Best Original Score category of the Interactive Achievement Awards, presented by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. Service on an Interactive Achievement Awards nominating panel is limited to the most accomplished video game professionals, and is therefore a testament to career achievement in the interactive entertainment industry.
Winifred is the owner and sole composer at Generations Productions LLC, an award-winning music studio and production company.
Great new track .. my favorite is still Charly and the chocolate factory !! keep going ... Best wishes from Cannes. Hope to meet you there one of those years during a congress. My manager is 5 generation from Cannes and she could assist you there if you need... Paulus.
Hello! Thank you for the invite! I was so impressed with the music in God of War. It is a fantasitc game with an equally epic musical score. It's great to know there are females out there being sucessful in the game composition world! Thanks for forging the path with such creative quality. As of now, I'm just starting out, but I'm excited about composing for games. I really enjoy them. All the best on all your musical projects.
