Don Ferrone is a performer and composer equally at home performing with a symphony orchestra, scoring commercials, or creating computer video game soundtracks. Don Ferrone’s ability to switch musical gears makes him very viable in the music world. An early love for jazz and rhythm are strong attributes of his style.

As a professional musician he has performed and recorded with great personalities such as Leonard Cohen, Hans Zimmer, Bill Conti, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton, Lalo Schifran, Thomas, David and Randy Newman, Sting, and Barbara Streisand.

He has performed as a double bassist on the film scores of Road to Perdition, Shindler’s List, The Lion King, Batman Forever, Tin Cup, Pocahontas, Mission Impossible, Men in Black, Independence Day, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and many of the top grossing films of the last ten years.

Don performs with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, the Pacific and Pasadena Symphony Orchestras and is principal bass of the Los Angeles Master Chorale Orchestra. In 1999, he began creating soundtracks for computer video games and has recently completed scoring Sony Online Entertainment’s game PlanetSide and it’s expansion game package PlanetSide: Core Combat.

These two video games are on pace to become the biggest sellers in the history of online video game entertainment. He has brought his unique perspective on the computer game scoring process to the development of a new contract that enables composers and developers to have access to the incomparable resources that live Los Angeles studio orchestras offer to computer games. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.