Inon Zur

Inon Zur (, ) is an Israeli-born American 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 Crysis, Dragon Age: Origins (2009), The Elder Scrolls: Blades (2019), Syberia: The World Before (2023), Starfield (2024) and Rise of the Ronin (2024).

Early life Inon Zur was born in Israel. At the age of five, he was trying to compose harmonies with his mother's singing, and became inspired by classical music. He won his first award during this period in his career, a Telly Award for his work on Power Rangers: Turbo. The London Symphony Orchestra performed Zur's Starfield score at Bethesda's 10th Anniversary The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 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.

Legacy Zur's music has been featured in numerous top-selling game franchises. He has been described as being "internationally recognized as one of the A-list orchestral composers in the video games industry". Variety named him on a short list of top video game composers. He was listed on top 40 greatest video games composers of all time (ranked 17th by composercode.com)

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, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Hobbit, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. 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 Dragon Age: Inquisition. 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.

Musical style and influences Zur's compositions frequently are focused on full orchestras, choir and, in some games like Prince of Persia, ethnic instruments like Arabic flutes and the woodwind duduk.

Nintendo DS version

Additional music

Trailer-A Hero Rises

(music editing) with various others

several songs from Dragon Age series

Cinematics & one song

Early access version & Testing only

Cinematic trailer World of Tanks: Mercenaries Additional music for console version

Films Year Title Notes 1995 Yellow Lotus 1997 Ashes Casper: A Spirited Beginning Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie 1998 The Refugee Rusty: A Dog's Tale 2000 Power Rangers in 3D: Triple Force 2001 Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers 2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trailer The New World Trailer Kingdom of Heaven Trailer 2006 Annapolis Trailer 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Trailer Stardust Trailer 2008 The Tale of Despereaux Trailer Fool's Gold Trailer The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior Trailer The Other Boleyn Girl Trailer The Spiderwick Chronicles Trailer 2009 Drag Me to Hell Trailer X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Trailer Race to Witch Mountain Trailer 2010 Assassin's Creed: Ascendance Short Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue 2011 Jane Eyre Trailer 2012 The Hobbit Trailer 2013 The Smurfs 2 Trailer 2014 Reclaim 2015 Welcome to Forever Short Fantastic Four Trailer Avengers: Age of Ultron Trailer The Good Dinosaur Trailer 2016 Ghostbusters Trailer 2017 Saber Rock The Shape of Water Trailer All the Money in the World Trailer 2018 The Kindergarten Teacher Trailer The Sisters Brothers Trailer 2019 Knives Out Trailer Michael vs Jason: Evil Emerges Short (music from Fallout 76)

Television

Awards and nominations +

Telly Awards Best Score