Richard Adrian Jacques (; born 1973) is an English composer of film, television and video game music. He is best known for his scores for games such as Sonic R, Headhunter, Jet Set Radio Future, Mass Effect, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Early life Jacques was interested in composing music from an early age. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying trombone and piano, and showed a keen interest in composition in multiple styles including orchestral, jazz and popular music genres. He then attended Wells Cathedral School aged 16 as a Specialist Musician, where he also took up Percussion. In 1994 Jacques graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Colchester Institute / University of Essex. He was immediately hired as an in-house composer at Sega Europe.
Career At Sega Europe, Jacques began by composing soundtracks for a number of Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, and Xbox games such as Daytona CCE, Sonic R, Sonic 3D Blast, Jet Set Radio, Metropolis Street Racer and Jet Set Radio Future.
Jacques's most accomplished work at Sega, 2001's Headhunter,Jacques's VGM Rush profile . was the first video game soundtrack to be recorded with A-list musicians at Abbey Road Studios' Studio One. The soundtrack was well received, and won multiple awards including Game Audio Network Guild 'Recognition Award', and was performed at the first Symphonic Game Music Concert at The Gewandhaus in Leipzig and Video Games Live events including the inaugural concert at the Hollywood Bowl in 2005. Jacques left Sega Europe shortly after Jet Set Radio Future'''s release and became a freelance composer, continuing his relationship with Sega by scoring Headhunter Redemption in 2004.
Jacques went on to compose the BAFTA and Ivor Novello nominated original music for James Bond 007: Blood Stone. The score received top honours for "Best Original Composition" from the Music and Sound Awards 2012. After this, Jacques composed the music for the Alice in Wonderland game, for Disney in 2010, and LittleBigPlanet 2 for Sony in 2011.
Soon after, Richard opened a new studio in central London called AUDISSI, where he writes original music for new advertising, television, video games, and other visual media projects. This included music for TV game-shows such as Don't Scare the Hare, Prize Island, Fifteen to One, Catchphrase, The Getaway Car, Go for It, Don't Ask Me Ask Britain and Y Siambr.
In 2018, Jacques was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award from the Game Audio Network Guild.
In 2022, his score to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy'' won him the Best Original Video Game Score Ivor Novello Award.
Works Video games Year Title Note(s) 1995 Darxide Music with Adam Salkeld F1 Challenge Music with Adam Salkeld; European version 1996 Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition Music with Kenichi Tokoi, Jun Senoue, and Tomonori Sawada Shinobi X (European version)Music Sonic 3D Blast (Sega Saturn version) 1997 Sonic R Sega Worldwide Soccer '98 2000 Jet Set Radio Music with Hideki Naganuma and others Metropolis Street RacerMusic 2001 Headhunter 2002 Jet Set Radio Future Music with Hideki Naganuma and others Total Immersion Racing Music 2003 Headhunter Redemption 2004 OutRun 2 Arrangements EyeToy: Play 2Music 2005 Starship Troopers Pursuit Force Galidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension EyeToy: Play 3 Music with Matt Coldrick 2006 Sega Rally 2006 Music with several others OutRun 2006Arrangements 2007 Mass Effect Music with Jack Wall, Sam Hulick and David Kates Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice Music with Jeff Tymoschuk Battlestations: Midway Music 2008 Conflict: Denied Ops Music Sega Superstars Tennis Music Hasbro Family Game Night Music You're in the Movies MusicWacky Races: Crash & Dash Music Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood Music with Steven Sim The Club Music with Chris Chudley and Jesper Kyd 2009 Sonic and the Black Knight Music with several others Battlestations: Pacific Music with David Kates 2010 Alice in Wonderland: An Adventure Beyond the Mirror Music with Wu Songming Fluidity Music with Allister Brimble and Anthony Putson Alice in Wonderland Music James Bond 007: Blood StoneMusic Sonic Free RidersArrangements 2011 Forza Motorsport 4 Music with several others Sonic GenerationsMusic with several others Fate of the World Music LittleBigPlanet 2Music 2012 LittleBigPlanet: The Muppets Premium Level KitMusic LittleBigPlanet PS VitaMusic LittleBigPlanet KartingMusic Sonic & All-Stars Racing TransformedMusic 2013 Alice in Wonderland: A New ChampionMusic Powerstar GolfMusic 2014 Sonic Boom: Rise of LyricMusic Sonic Boom: Shattered CrystalMusic 2016 Sonic Boom: Fire & IceMusic 2017 Knowledge is Power Music with several others Sonic ForcesRecording engineer 2019 Team Sonic RacingMusic with several others 2021 Marvel's Guardians of the GalaxyMusic 2022 Overwatch 2Music with several others 2024 Shadow GenerationsMusic with several others2026Denshattack!Music with several others
Film and TV Year Title Notes 2011 Don't Scare the Hare TV series 2013 Wright vs. Wrong Short Beat the Pack TV series Prize Island 2013 Fifteen to One Catchphrase 2014 Quest: A Tall Tale Film 2015 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie TV series 2016 The Getaway Car Go for It 2017 Don't Ask Me Ask Britain 2019 Y Siambr
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