Peter Connelly

Peter Connelly (born on September 8, 1972) is a video game composer and sound designer best known for his work on the action-adventure Tomb Raider series. He has been part of several award-winning video game releases working mainly with Core Design, Eutechnyx and Ubisoft.

Connelly has shown interest for music and sounds since his early ages. He brought his passion into writing and recording music and went on experimenting with a wide spectrum of sounds, as well as new music directions, including various music technologies such as synthesizers, samplers and especially fairlights.

Having worked on sound design and composed soundtracks for more than 30 video games, Connelly is best known for scoring three of the largely successful releases in the Tomb Raider series, an action-adventure video game developed by the series' original creators Core Design.

After finishing his work as senior sound designer on the critically acclaimed fifth instalment of, created and developed by Ubisoft Reflections, Connelly announced that his latest work would be the audio lead on Watch Dogs, a highly awaited AAA title by Ubisoft Reflections

Trained on a variety of instruments like the cello, guitar and the piano since his childhood, Connelly also holds an OND and an HND in Music Technology at Newcastle College.

He cites John Williams and Danny Elfman as one of his primary inspiration sources which contributed to his work and development as a composer in the long run.