OUT TODAY: Blizzard has released Dragonflight, the much-awaited expansion to World of Warcraft. I had the pleasure of working directly with Blizzard on two batches of orchestrations for this release, one that we recorded in July and another in September. In both batches I was orchestrating exploratory and ambient music written by composer David Arkenstone. WOW is an absolutely massive game franchise, it was a pleasure to work with Blizzard again, and it’s an honor to be a part of a game with such a huge following and legacy. I did the music copyist and engraving work for the conductor’s scores, and Michael Runyan from RPM Music did the parts.

The expansion has five new zones, a new race and a new class of characters, a higher level cap, and new talents. Most importantly, it now includes dragon riding with exceptional momentum-based physics informing the flight controls.