Jeff Kurtenacker
Jeff Kurtenacker is a music composer for video games, television, radio, and film. He was lead composer on the 2014 MMO WildStar by Carbine Studios, and co-composer on the major release Pirates of the Burning Sea by Flying Labs Software, released in January 2008, and worked on World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3 as a choral arranger and copyist. He lives in Southern California.
Early life
Kurtenacker was born and raised in Green Bay, WI. In 2001 he moved to Los Angeles to complete the Film Scoring program at UCLA Extension. He also has a degree in Music Composition and Audio/Video Technology from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.Work and projects
Video game scores
- WildStar by Carbine Studios
- Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove
- Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle
- Campfire Legends
- Avenue Flo - PlayFirst
- Cate West 2: The Velvet Keys
- Clockwork Man
- Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore 2 -Horn/String Arranging; Organ/Keys MIDI programming
- Warriors Game - HistoryChannel.com
- Ben Stein - It's Trivial iPhone game
- IGOR - The Game
- Forgotten Riddles 2
- Age of Mythology for Nintendo DS
- Assault Heroes 2 -
- Universal's The Simpsons Ride website mini games music
- Pirates of the Burning Sea
- Warcraft III - Vocal Orchestrations and Copywork
- World of Warcraft - Copywork; some arranging
- Karaoke Revolution: American Idol Encore - Horn/String Arranging; Organ/Keys MIDI programming
- Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate
- Cate West: The Vanishing Files
- Sunset Studio Deluxe
- Mystery London
- Hotel Mahjong
- Born Punk
- The Expanse: A Telltale Series
Film/Television scores
- The Girl Who Wore Freedom
- For the Good of the People
- The Navigator. A short film by Carlo Treviso
- Tonic: The Legend of Wooly Creek
Radio/TV commercials
- Rich Brother, Rich Sister radio ad
- The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending radio and TV ad
- The Romanov Bride radio ad
- SeaVegg TV infomercial