Ellen Meijers is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 video game music composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 who worked for such companies as Apple Inc., LucasArts

LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

, Oddworld Inhabitants

Oddworld Inhabitants

Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game developer founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning. The company is primarily known for the Oddworld Quintology, a series of award-winning video games about the fictional planet of Oddworld...

 and Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics is an American video game developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and founded in 1992 by Judy Lang, Madaline Canepa and Dave Morris...

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Education

• The Royal College of Art, England 1994–1995 Master of Arts: Interactive Multi Media
• Utrecht School of the Arts
  Utrecht School of the Arts
  The Utrecht School of the Arts is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, Netherlands. The institution has 570 teachers and staff members...
  
  , The Netherlands 1991–1995 Music Technology: Computer Composition & Sound Design
• University of Utrecht, The Netherlands 1989–1994 Master’s Degree in Musicology: 20th Century Composition

Awards

Her first notable achievement was the earning of the Highest Honors in International Piano Competition (Antwerp, Belgium — 1988).

In 1995 she won the Adobe-award for the most professional project shown at the Royal College of Art exhibition.

She also won the Editors' Choice Award for Best Sound (Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a multi-award–winning platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive. It was released in 1997 for the PlayStation video game console, DOS and Microsoft Windows in North America, Australia and Europe...

 — 1997) and was a finalist for the first Interactive Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound and Music (Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is a multi-award–winning platform video game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive. It is a sequel to the video game Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. It is considered a bonus title in the Oddworld series, and not part of the main Oddworld Quintology...

 — 1998).

Apple Inc.

• Maze
• Texas Hold'em
• Test Prep
• Klondike
• iQuiz

LucasArts

• Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
• Star Wars: Empire at War
  Star Wars: Empire at War
  Star Wars: Empire at War is a 2006 real-time strategy game developed by Petroglyph Games and published by LucasArts. Set between Episode III and Episode IV, it focuses on the fledgling struggle between the Empire and the Rebels. It uses Petroglyph's game engine Alamo. The most recent patch was...
  
  
• Star Wars: Battlefront II
  Star Wars: Battlefront II
  Star Wars: Battlefront II is a first/third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios, and published by LucasArts. The game is the sequel to the successful Star Wars: Battlefront and features new vehicles, characters, game mechanics, maps, and missions...
  
  
• Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
  Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
  Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction is a third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published on January 11, 2005 by LucasArts for PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
  
  
• Secret Weapons Over Normandy
  Secret Weapons Over Normandy
  Secret Weapons Over Normandy or is a World War II-based arcade flight simulation video game released on November 18, 2003. Published by LucasArts and developed by Totally Games, the game is composed of 15 objective-based missions set in 1940s European, North African, and the Pacific theatres of war...
  
  
• Armed and Dangerous
  Armed and Dangerous (video game)
  Armed and Dangerous, often shortened to AnD, is a video game created by Planet Moon Studios and released by LucasArts. It is a third-person Action/Adventure Comedy shooter which parodies both other games and several other media such as The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Monty Python and the Holy...
  
  
• RTX Red Rock
  RTX Red Rock
  RTX Red Rock is an action-adventure game developed and published by LucasArts for the PlayStation 2. It was announced and later canceled for the Nintendo GameCube.- Plot :...
  
  

External links

• Ellen Meijers Studios http://www.ellenmeijers.com