Based out of Belfast. Live orchestra, video playback, energising light show.
A collective of talented, forward thinking musicians. Any orchestral musician interested in joining is welcome to contact us.
Every member is a volunteer.
Arrangements written in-house.
No paid staff.
Just people who love the music.
The Irish Video Game Orchestra was founded in 2015 in Belfast. We exist to give the composers behind Final Fantasy, Zelda and Skyrim the same treatment given to classical music, and even film music in the last few decades.
What started as a small group of volunteer musicians has grown into something we're still slightly startled by. In 2027 we take the stage in London for our largest operation to date: a full orchestra and choir performing a programme that spans the medium's history, with hosts and guests drawn from the games we've spent our lives playing.
We are a charity, not a touring franchise. Every musician on stage is a volunteer. Every penny goes back into the next concert, the next commission, the next person who picks up an instrument because they heard the Final Fantasy prelude played live. The work is the point.
Plenty of orchestras have worked out that video game music sells tickets. Fewer of them have actually finished the games.
