ASCAP COMPOSERS' CHOICE AWARDS 2025: WINNER Video Game Score Of The Year

TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU

Nainita has won the Video Game Score Of The Year award for Tales Of Kenzera: Zau at the ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards 2025.

The game was produced by Surgent Studios for Electronic Arts.

Music Credits

Orchestrator: Geoff Lawson

Additional Music: Gijs van Amelsvoort

Score Copying/Music Prep: Tristan Noon

Score Mixer: Steve Parr

Session Prep: Jack McCartney

Soloists

Percussion: Sidiki Dembele

Fula Flute: Baba Galle Kante

Cello: Elliott Bailey

Kora: Radially Kouyate

London - Angel Studios

Scoring Engineer: Fiona Cruickshank

Choir: Voquality

Choir Master: Ken Burton

Derek Green, Kwaku Agyemang, Colin Anderson, Emmanuel Dadey, Yolanda Grant-Thompson, Mikaela Hoyte, Paul Lee, Gabriella Liandu, Themba Mvula, Emma Osei-lah, Shivaji Ratan, Arabella Rodrigo, Lydia Shariff, Cecilia Wickham, Philip Yeboah, Lufuno Ndou

Vienna - Synchron Stage Vienna

Scoring Engineer: Tristan Linton, Bernd Mazagg

Conductor: Bernhard Melbye Voss

Pro Tools Operator: Lukas Lützow, Erwin Wonisch, Martin Weismayr

Contractor: Marton Barka

Technical Manager: Roland Tscherne

Stage Monitor Mixer: Stephan Huber, Thomas Böck, Alexander-Maria Lehner

Music Prep & Librarian: Stefan Höll, Sugi Shin

Project Coordinator: Josy Svajda, Stefan Steinbauer

South Africa - The Loft Studios, Johannesburg

Choir Producer: JB Arthur

Choir: Anele Qwengana, Banzi Makhubu, Bongani Gama, Gugulethu Sibaya, Kate Nyamende, Senzeka Mnguni

Soloists: Sipho Mhlanga, Zamasina Jantjie

London - Abbey Road Studios

Scoring Engineer: Nick Wollage

Orchestra Contractor: Susie Gillis for Isobel Griffiths

Orchestra Leader: Everton Nelson

Conductor: Gavin Greenaway

Violin: Miles Brett, Elodie Chousmer-Howlles, Steven Crichlow, Sarah Daramy-Williams, Raja Halder, Marianne Haynes, Ian Humphries, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Nicolette Kuo, Ronald Long, Sarah Martin, Kotono Sato, Jackie Shave

Cello: Ian Burdge, James Douglas, David Kadamukasa, Desmond Neysmith, Tamaki Sugimoto, Tony Woollard

Double Bass: Mary Scully, Evangeline Tang

Trumpet: Jason Evans, Kate Moore, Chris Storr

French Horn: Kira Doherty, Philippa Koushk-Jalali, Corinne Bailey, Richard Watkins

Trombone: Chris Augustine, Richard Henry, Becky Smith, Andy Wood

Tuba: Sasha Koushk-Jalali