Lorne Balfe

Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish music producer and composer for film, television, and video games. He is best known for composing music for films such as Mission: Impossible – Fallout, iBoy, and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, DreamWorks animated films Home and Penguins of Madagascar, video games Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Crysis 2, Skylanders and the Call of Duty franchise. He has a studio at Hans Zimmer's company Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated with him on multiple projects. He sometimes composes under the pseudonym "Oswin Mackintosh".

Biography
Balfe is born in February 23, 1976 in Inverness, Scotland. He is a distant relative of Michael William Balfe, the Irish composer, best known for the operetta, the "Bohemian Girl". His father, David Balfe was also a composer.

In his teenage years, Balfe lived in Plockton in north west Scotland where Hamish MacBeth was being recorded. He used to cook breakfasts for the cast and crew.

He started off with his professional musical career by composing jingles for Radio Forth (now Forth One) in Edinburgh.