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Tommy Tallarico Biography

Tommy Tallarico is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on February 18, 1968 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Tallarico was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on February 18th in 1968. He spent the majority of his childhood in the world of music. His parents would take him to the Springfield Symphony when he was nine years old. He began to learn to play the guitar and piano and, at 10 years old Tallarico mentions John Williams’ score for Star Wars and Bill Conti’s Rocky score as sources of inspiration, and he became “hooked” on classical music. Tallarico was also influenced by his cousin Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. Tallarico was a frequent attendee at his cousin’s shows as a child and developed the desire to be an actor.

In 1995, Victor Lucas, who manages the Electric Playground website–interviewed Tallarico at E3. The two developed a friendship which allowed Lucas to invite Tallarico to collaborate with the host on an episode. It was 1997 when Tallarico along with Lucas wrote and produced and hosted Electric Playground TV, which featured new, previews and reviews of video games. Tallarico was the irreverent, hilarious funny man to Lucas’s straight-laced man. The show was able to receive in 2001 the Telly Award for Best Entertainment Cable Programming. It was in 2002 that the review section of Electric Playground –Reviews on the Run was spun-off into a separate program with Tallarico and Lucas host as well. For the U.S., Reviews on the Run was shown through G4 TV as Judgment Day. The Electric Playground is the longest-running television video game show ever.

In 2002, Tallarico founded the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.), a non-profit to recognize video game music and audio. Every year, members of the video game industry vote on their favorite audio of the year, as well as fund scholarships for students pursuing audio design and lifetime achievement awards. The G.A.N.G. awards have become increasingly large and organized, with the 2016 awards featuring the Videri String Quartet playing video game themes. Tallarico remains on the Board of Directors. Tallarico was elected to the Board of Governors for NARAS/GRAMMYs in 2005. Tallarico is an advisory board emeritus for the Game Developers Conference, and received the Ambassador Award for his work with G.A.N.G. and Video Games Live. He is a nominating peer leader for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

In 2002, Tallarico formed Mystical Stone Entertainment, which concomitantly formed Video Games Live, a symphony orchestra that plays music from video games, with Tallarico hosting and playing guitar. The goal of VGL is to bring video game music into mainstream as a legitimate art form. Tallarico also creates the visuals—scenes from video games, as well as lights and lasers—that are played in sync with the music.

Tallarico was a part of a variety of other games while working in Virgin Interactive, including The Terminator, Aladdin, Cool Spot, The 7th Guest and Global Gladiators. Many of the games he wrote for were awarded in recognition of their soundtracks. Tallarico is the very first music composer who has release commercially-produced albums of music from video games around the globe. The album was released under the label Capitol Records and titled Virgin Games Greatest Hits The first volume was released in 1994. The second volume came out in 1996.

Name	Tommy Tallarico
First Name	Tommy
Last Name	Tallarico
Occupation	Composer
Birthday	February 18
Birth Year	1968
Place of Birth	Springfield
Home Town	Massachusetts
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Aquarius
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In 2006, as Tallarico spent more time with his new project, Video Games Live, he started to spend less time on the show, missing almost all of 2007 and 2008. In 2009, Scott Jones took over his spot as full-time co-host with Victor Lucas.

Tommy Tallarico Net Worth

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

Tommy Tallarico (born February 18 1968) is an American video game musician, composer sound designer, TV personality , and live show’s producer and director of creative. He has been involved in the development of over 300 games for video in the early 1990s. He is the inventor for the popular concert show Video Games Live (VGL) which is a multi-award winning symphony orchestra that has performed video game music all over the globe since 2002. In addition, he hosted the TV programs Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until the year 2006.

Tallarico continued to work for Virgin Interactive as head of music and video until 1994. He then moved on to create Tommy Tallarico Studios. With his partner David Perry formed Shiny Entertainment at the same time and the two studios collaborated to develop classic games like Earthworm Jim and MDK. Shiny Entertainment is involved with numerous games since then, including Spider-Man, Time Crisis, Sonic and the Black Knight, Tomorrow Never Dies, Madden NFL ’96, as well as Metroid Prime, which was nominated for an BAFTA for the Best Sound.

Tallarico became increasingly interested in promoting video game music appreciation. He and others petitioned the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS/GRAMMYs) to consider video games for Grammy Awards. In 2000, the Grammy’s agreed, changing the instrumental soundtrack category to “Best Instrumental Composition Written for Motion Pictures, Television or Other Visual Media,” so that video games could be considered as well. Tallarico pushed video game music writers to join NARAS board of governors to provide more legitimacy to the field and help video games receive the award.

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In 2007, Tallarico’s charitable works were recognized by the Hollywood Arts Organization when they chose him as the first honoree and recipient of their Dream Award. In 2012, Tallarico received G.A.N.G.’s Lifetime Achievement Award. G.A.N.G. president, Paul Lipson, said that he “has literally helped hundreds of people get into the video game industry and realize their dreams. There has never been a more deserving person for this award.” In 2013, he gave a TED Talk entitled “Video Games – Art in Disguise.”

Tallarico has produced seven VGL albums. The first album, Video Games Live Volume 1, debuted at No. 10 on Billboard Top 10 for Classical Music Crossovers, and was named 2008 Best Video Game Soundtrack for both IGN and G.A.N.G. The second volume, Level 2, also sold as a Blu-ray DVD concert, debuted at No. 8 on the same Billboard list. However, Tallarico received lukewarm support from the recording industry for the albums. He noted, “they don’t believe in the culturally artistic significance of video game music and they don’t believe that people are interested in listening after the game is turned off.” In response, Tallarico crowdsourced the third album Level 3 on Kickstarter. The project beat its goal and raised $285,081 for the album. Since then, Video Games Live has brought out two further albums, Level 4 and Level 5, through Kickstarter.

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The New York Times has noted that Tallarico “puts on a captivating, proudly bombastic show. But that demonstration of community on the part of the audience was almost as impressive as anything on the stage.” Before each concert, Tallarico holds a small festival, featuring video game set-ups, meet-and-greets, and costume contests. VGL premiered at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to an audience of 11,000 in 2005. Since then, the show has performed for millions of people across the globe, playing in 42 countries on 5 continents, including in the Middle East, China, South Korea, Japan, Europe, South America and Australia. In 2015, he performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with more than 200 musicians, including the Colorado Symphony and Choir. In 2016, he performed 2 shows at the Bird’s Nest National Olympic Stadium in Beijing to over 30,000 people. Tallarico chooses different songs for each show, based upon the area’s favorite game series and by asking fans at future venues what songs they would like to hear. Over the past decade, VGL has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Taiwan Symphony, the Spanish National Orchestra, and the Polish National Orchestra, among others.

In 2014, Tallarico and electronic dance music artist BT began working on Electronic Opus. As with Video Games Live, Electronic Opus presents EDM music alongside a symphony orchestra. They used Kickstarter to fund an album, raising over $250,000. The show opened at the Miami Winter Music Conference in 2015.

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In 2010, PBS hosted the symphony as a National TV Special that appeared in 90 million households in the United States; it was also broadcast multiple times on Sky Arts in the United Kingdom and other European countries. VGL has been awarded two Guinness World Records: one for the most videogame concerts performed (357 at the time), and another for largest audience to ever view a video game music concert live (752,000 people in Beijing, China in 2015). The symphony has spawned several imitators. VGL was on the cover of Symphony Magazine in 2014. It regularly performs at gaming events, such as E3, Gamescom, Tokyo Game Show, the Game Developers Conference, Gen Con, San Diego Comic Con, and others.

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While play-testing, Tallarico often petitioned his bosses to let him create video game music. Since he had never produced video game music before, Tallarico offered to write the music for free in his spare time. Tallarico’s first musical project at Virgin Interactive was for the Nintendo Game Boy version of Prince of Persia. The resulting music, a “plodding, ominous synth” as a soundtrack, impressed Virgin enough that they let him continue to make music, making him head of the audio division six months later. Given the constraints on video game cartridges, Tallarico focused on making catchy—but short—MIDI melodies that could be looped repeatedly. “The main focus of writing video game music back then was it had to be simple and have a great melody,” Tallarico said. Tallarico advocated for more space on cartridges being devoted to audio, and became an early pioneer in bringing real sampled sounds of instruments into video games.

What is Tommy Tallarico famous for?

He is the creator of the concert series Video Games Live (VGL), a symphony orchestra that has played video game music across the world since 2002 and co-hosted the television shows Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006.

Is Tommy Tallarico related to Steven Tyler?

When he was 9 years old, Tommy Tallarico would stand next to the stage and watch his cousin Steven Tallarico — better known as Steven Tyler — perform in front of 20,000 screaming fans. But it wasn’t Aerosmith who made him want to be a composer.

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Why did Steven Tyler change his name?

Tyler’s real name is Steven Tallarico. His first band was called The Strangeurs, but they had to change their name because of a band called The Strangers. They became Chain Reaction, and Tallarico became Steven Tally. After Chain Reaction split up, he formed Aerosmith and became Steven Tyler.

How rich is Steve Tyler?

Steven Tyler is an American rock musician who has a net worth of $150 million. He is most famous for being a founding member and lead singer for the band Aerosmith which is one of the most-successful bands of all time.

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