Lorne Balfe - Genius: Picasso (National Geographic Original Series Soundtrack) (2018)

Scotland's Lorne Balfe is a Grammy Award-winning composer and producer known for his various film, television, and video game scores. Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1976, Balfe grew up in a musical family and began playing piano at a young age. A gifted musician, by his teens he was making a living writing jingles for commercials, a skill he quickly transitioned into scoring music for TV shows. After a period living in London, he relocated to California, where he joined the staff at composer Hans Zimmer's Santa Monica-based Remote Control Productions. Working with Zimmer, he earned credits for such notable productions as Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, and more.

In 2009, he joined Zimmer and composer James Newton Howard in taking home the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their work on director Christopher Nolan's Batman sequel The Dark Knight. However, it was his collaboration with Zimmer on the music for the 2010 animated film Megamind that helped launch his solo composing career. From there, he moved into video games, composing Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations with Jesper Kyd.

Although he continues to work with Zimmer, Balfe is an in-demand composer in his own right, and has supplied the scores for such high-profile productions as 2013's biopic Salinger, 2014's animated Penguins of Madagascar, and 2015's Terminator Genysis. In 2017 he composed the music for The Lego Batman Movie. Also that year, he was score producer on the war drama Dunkirk, and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme for his collaboration with Zimmer on the National Geographic Channel's Albert Einstein series Genius. ~ Matt Collar

Tracklist:
01. Lorne Balfe - Stroke of Genius
02. Lorne Balfe - La vie
03. Lorne Balfe - A True Passion
04. Lorne Balfe - Sketches
05. Lorne Balfe - A Very Big Canvas
06. Lorne Balfe - I Want to Paint You
07. Lorne Balfe - Picasso
08. Lorne Balfe - Smashing the Rules
09. Lorne Balfe - Affairs
10. Lorne Balfe - Distorted Portraits
11. Lorne Balfe - Paint Like a Child
12. Lorne Balfe - Family
13. Lorne Balfe - Art Training
14. Lorne Balfe - A Dream
15. Lorne Balfe - Fearless Art
16. Lorne Balfe - Give Me a Museum
17. Lorne Balfe - We Are Your Perfect Painting
18. Lorne Balfe - Masterpiece in Progress
19. Lorne Balfe - Dear Carlos
20. Lorne Balfe - I Chose You
21. Lorne Balfe - Guernica
22. Lorne Balfe - Genius: Picasso