Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Ubisoft
Jon has been the composer for Rainbow Six Siege since 2018
In 2020, Rainbow Six Siege surpassed 70 million registered players worldwide.
The game is currently in its sixth year. The original score for Year 1 of the game was composed by renowned electronic recording artists Paul Haslinger (formerly of Tangerine Dream) and Ben Frost. Paul Haslinger continued the score through Year 2. Composer Will Bates composed music for the first quarter of Year 3, before Jon took over in the second quarter of Year 3, scoring the in-game music for the remainder of Year 3 (2018) and then Years 4,5 & 6. Composer Danny Cocke has composed music for live events and promos for the game during this time.
Currently Jon composes music for 4 new seasons of the game each year and 4 special in-game events.
Soundtrack albums have been released with Jon’s music from Years 3, 4 & 5 of the game. See the Releases page.
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Score composed and produced by Jon Opstad
Performed By:
Budapest Art Orchestra, Conductor - Peter Pejtsik
Jon Opstad - synthesisers, electronics, waterphone, clarinets
Eivind Aarset - electric guitar
Heidi Parsons & Peter Gregson - cello solos
Bad Snacks - electric violin
Mark Opstad - countertenor vocal
Adrian Portia - hand pans, percussion
Carmody - vocals, electric guitar
String Quintet: Clare Wheeler, Kate Suthers, Kirsty Mangan (violins), Laurie Gregson (viola), Peter Gregson (cello)
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Mix Engineer: Goetz Botzenhardt
Orchestrator: Dave Foster
Music Editor/Programming: Lindsay Wright
Contractor/Session Producer for Orchestral Sessions: Miklos Lukacs
Recording engineer for Orchestral Sessions - Gabor Buczko
ProTools engineer for Orchestral Sessions - David Lukacs