“The Video Game Music Concert is designed to create an exciting interdisciplinary platform for students to express their interests for game sound in a community-centered environment. This exciting project will gather chamber ensembles and composers to create a concert experience centered on the appreciation and championing of video game music, an art form which has captivated many and will assuredly captivate many more who experience it!”
Michael Klinberg has completed a BM in Violin Performance at Indiana University, where he studied with Mimi Zweig, and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Music Education at Indiana University. He holds a diverse career as a classical violinist, researcher, and educator. As a pedagogue, he has been teaching at the IU String Academy for four years, and in August 2020 he established his own private violin studio as a faculty member of the program. During this time he has researched the convergences between video games and the classical space, and in 2022 he founded the Music in Games Society at Indiana University, where he currently holds the office of President.
Michael’s project explores the slightly taboo area of video game music in a conservatory setting. Building in his previously founded student organization (Music in Games Society), Klinberg organized a set of chamber groups to perform a series of newly arranged and well loved video game music.
The Music in Games Society Video Game Music Concert was presented on April 8th at 6:30 pm at the FAR center in Bloomington, featuring diverse chamber groups and an incredibly enthusiastic audience.
“It was amazing to see so many people gathered in one space to take part in a musical experience designed exclusively around video game music. This field is only growing larger and so is the group of people in the world who have fallen in love with or will fall in love with this music. I can’t wait to bring more experiences like these to our community!” -Michael Klinberg
The Music in Games Society also met with guest composer Austin Wintory, American video game music composer; Wintory wrote the only video game soundtrack to ever be nominated for a Grammy award. Austin met with the student organization over zoom in the OECD office, and gave an inspiring presentation to a group of JSoM video game music fans and composition students.Read more about Michael’s project on our blog!