Inon Zur

Quick Facts

Full Name	Inon Zur
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jul 4, 1965(1965-07-04)
Age	59
Birthplace	Israel
Country	Israel
Birth City	Israel
Horoscope	Cancer

Inon Zur Biography

Inon Zur is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on July 4, 1965 in Israel, Israel, Israel. Famous for his award- winning music for video games such as Men of Valor and Dragon Age: Origins, this composer also wrote scores for such television series and films as, respectively, Power Rangers: Turbo and Au Pair II.

He and his Japanese contemporary Jun Senoue both became famous as video game composers.

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 learned to play French horn as a child, studied piano by the age of eight, and was studying composition by the age of ten. He graduated from the Music Academy of Tel Aviv, and spent four years in the Israeli military. He emigrated to the United States in 1990 to study at the Dick Grove School of Music for a year, and then under private tutor Jack Smalley, a television music composer, and others for two years at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Zur began his career in 1994 by working on soundtracks for movies, such as Yellow Lotus, featured at the Sundance Film Festival. He signed on to compose for Fox Family for six years, and made soundtracks for various children’s television shows, including Digimon and Power Rangers. By 2002, he estimated that he had composed the soundtrack to over 360 Power Rangers episodes. He won his first award during this period in his career, a Telly Award for his work on Power Rangers: Turbo. While he enjoyed the work, he began to want to go work somewhere “more intriguing, more advanced, and basically a place that people really appreciate music more”; his agent overcame his initial reluctance and convinced him to work in the video games industry. His first video game soundtrack was 2000’s Star Trek: Klingon Academy, which he started composing for the game in 1997. Zur moved on to prestigious titles, composing for the award-winning and critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal in 2001 and Icewind Dale II in 2002, among many others. Icewind Dale II earned him the first of many nominations for video game music awards, that of the Game Audio Network Guild’s Music of the Year award. He continued to work on movies and television programs during these years, composing the soundtrack to Au Pair in 1999 and the English version of the 2000 anime series Escaflowne.

A native of Israel, he relocated to the United States in the early 1990s and settled in the Los Angeles area.

Inon Zur Net Worth

Inon Zur is one of the richest Composer from Israel. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Inon Zur 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After studying at the Music Academy of Tel Aviv, he completed four years of service in the Israeli military. He later took classes at the University of California, Los Angeles’ music department.

Early in his career, he signed a six-year music contract with the Fox Family (later ABC Family) channel and worked on such series as Power Rangers and Digimon.

Inon Zur (Hebrew: ינון צור ‎, [jiˈnon ˈt͡sur] ; born July 4, 1965) is an Israeli-American music composer. Originally writing for movies and television, he later moved into composing for video games. He has been described as being “internationally recognized as one of the A-list orchestral composers in the video games industry”. Zur has composed the music to over 50 video games, 15 television shows, and 10 films, as well as film trailers. He has been nominated for numerous awards, and has won three—a Telly Award in 1997 for Best Score on Power Rangers: Turbo, a Game Audio Network Guild award in 2004 for Best Original Instrumental track for Men of Valor, and a Hollywood Music in Media Award in 2009 for Best Original Song – Video Game for Dragon Age: Origins.

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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. He has often collaborated with the Northwest Sinfonia orchestra from Seattle, though he has on occasion used other orchestras. Whenever Zur works with a real orchestra, he always conducts it himself. He has named some of his musical influences as classical artists such as Sergey Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and Beethoven, movie composers like John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, and jazz artists like George Gershwin and Henry McFeeny. While he would one day like to compose music not intended to be part of a larger piece of media, he finds that the pressure of a deadline and the feedback from the developers are crucial in his development process. He feels that his music sounds best when it is in the context given by the media it was made for, though he feels that performances of the music by itself transforms it “from just a soundtrack to an art form on its own”. Zur sometimes collaborates with other musicians while composing his game soundtracks; for example, he worked with Florence and the Machine to create a unique rendition of “I’m Not Calling You A Liar” for the Dragon Age II soundtrack.

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Inon Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Inon Zur celebrates birthday on July 4 of every year.