Tom Salta, Composer

TOM SALTA RECORDS WITH HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYMPHONY & CHOIR FOR ORIGINAL SCORE TO TOM CLANCY’S GHOST RECON: ADVANCED WARFIGHTER 2

Award-winning composer records dynamic emotional soundtrack with Hollywood A-list musicians and vocalists for next installment in popular squad-based action franchise.

Composer and music producer Tom Salta, whose previous credits include the MTV VMA nominated original score for Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter™ (GRAW), has written and recorded the dark and epic original score for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter™ 2, the next installment in the smash-hit squad-based action franchise. Scheduled for release in March 2007, GRAW2 is being developed by the award-winning teams that created the original Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ in Ubisoft’s Paris and Red Storm Studios. GRAW2 will be available on the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Windows® PC.

"Our goal on GRAW2 was to match the same high quality level as the acclaimed GRAW1's soundtrack. However Tom exceeded our expectations and has brought GRAW2's score to the next level, guiding the whole orchestra and choir performance to beautifully balance the thin line between Emotion and Violence - right where the magic happens." - Manu Bachet, Music Supervisor for GRAW2 at Ubisoft

For GRAW2, Salta has written a more aggressive and expressive original score to enhance the game’s intensive action and memorable, dramatic scenes, with only a few select motif references taken from the anthemic musical score of the first outing. To ensure the best performance of these tense and emotionally complex compositions for GRAW2, Salta recorded with the Hollywood Studio Symphony and the Page LA Studio Chorus on the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, a premier orchestra recording venue for Hollywood’s major motion pictures. To hear preview samples of Tom Salta’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 music, visit the official website at www.ghostrecon.com.

Salta’s other recent projects include Ubisoft’s exclusive first-person action title for the Nintendo Wii console, Red Steel, drawing from traditional and contemporary Japan for the game’s original soundtrack which received IGN’s Wii Award for Best Original Score. His music is also featured in the Warner Bros. movie trailer for “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.”

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 builds off of the events in the first game and places gamers in control of the U.S. military’s elite fighting unit, the Ghosts. In the year 2014, the rising conflict between Mexican loyalists and insurgent rebel forces has thrown Mexico into a full-scale civil war. Under the command of Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghosts are called upon to face an imminent threat to the United States. The fate of two countries now lies in the hands of the Ghosts as they fend off an attack on U.S. soil. Equipped with the most cutting-edge weaponry and technology, the Ghosts must battle on both sides of the border to neutralize the escalating rebel threat.