About Robert Casady
Robert is an award-winning
composer, arranger/orchestrator, and sound designer.
Robert was born and raised in Santa Maria, California.
Graduating from high school at the age of fifteen, he
entered the local community college as a music composition
major. Upon his acceptance at California State University,
Northridge, he was given an Outstanding Achievement Award
in Composition. However, looking for more than the limited
(at the time) commercial program the school offered, he
left that institution to attend the film scoring program at
UCLA, where he studied with Gerald Fried and Ernest Gold,
among others. Subsequent meetings with composers John
Williams and Bruce Broughton further encouraged him, and he
benefited greatly from the tutelage of television music
icon Earle Hagen during one of that composer's
BMI-sponsored film scoring workshops.
He began composing professionally in 1980 for low budget
film and video projects. Some time later he met director
Matt Saia, who went on to become an important figure in
video game design, and who gave Robert his first game
scoring assignment. Robert has since contributed original
music to over a dozen game titles, as well as arranged and
recorded non-original music for several others.
His music has garnered much praise and attention.
Casper:
Spirit Dimensions (recorded live in Prague) was
extremely well received, and in 2003 Robert won the
Game Audio Network Guild
award for Best
Children's Audio for his rousing score to
Tonka:
Rescue Patrol. He continues to be active
in the field of interactive entertainment. He currently
resides in Simi Valley, California, where he works out
of his own project studio.
