PLAY! A Video Game Symphony
From the creative team that brought you the ground breaking Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY Symphony Tour, comes an entirely new celebration of video game music and images:
PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a Symphony world-tour featuring music from blockbuster video games. The music is performed by some of the finest, world-class orchestras and choirs. All concerts take place in classy, prestigious venues. Graphics on large screens suspended above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.
The concert tour started off in North America on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, followed by a sold out show in Europe. PLAY! is embarking on a world tour.
Arnie Roth, Principal Conductor and Music Director
Roth is a Grammy Award winning artist known for his work with performers Diana Ross, Charlotte Church, Peter Cetera, Art Garfunkel, the Irish Tenors, and Dennis DeYoung.
He has also been a long time member of Mannheim Steamroller. Roth has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, and the BBC Symphony. Roth served as the Music Director and Conductor for Dear Friends, and More Friends Concerts-Music from FINAL FANTASY.
He has produced and conducted music for many films, and has produced dozens of best-selling CDs, released on American Gramaphone, JVC, Mattel, Warner Bros., Sony, Koch, and Razor & Tie. Roth received the award for Best Score at the 2003 DVD Premier Awards.
Andy Brick, Associate Conductor
Andy Brick is a prolific Award winning composer, conductor and symphonist of music for film, television, live concerts and interactive games.
He has served as Conductor and Music Director of the historic GC (Games Convention) concert series with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague. He has composed, conducted and/or orchestrated music for such productions as The Sims, FINAL FANTASY, Little Mermaid II, Lady & The Tramp II and Merregnon 2 with orchestras throughout the world.
Recently, Brick was selected as the featured conductor in the "Young, Gifted, and Engaged" issue of SYMPHONY Magazine. In June 2005 Brick won the prestigious "Masterworks of the New Era" award for new orchestral compositions.
Jason M. Paul, Producer
Paul has brought critical acclaim to the video game music genre after creating the first ever video game music concert series in the U.S. with Dear Friends-Music from FINAL FANTASY.
As a producer, he has staged concerts around the world for such artists as Luciano Pavarotti, and The Three Tenors.
Paul began his career at a marketing agency handling corporate entertainment and environmental design for clients such as Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sun Microsystems, Adidas, Midway Entertainment, Sony Metreon and Square Enix.
