Game music belongs in the concert hall
VGOScore is a library of orchestral arrangements of video game music, created to help orchestras perform it and to help musicians understand it.
The project
Video game music is bringing a new generation to the concert hall, and orchestras need good repertoire to welcome them. VGOScore started in 2016 to build that repertoire, from The Legend of Zelda and World of Warcraft to Undertale and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Every arrangement is published on YouTube as a scrolling score, so anyone can follow the orchestration note by note while listening. Each one aims to capture the essence of the original music while making it idiomatic and playable for real musicians.
On stage around the world
VGOScore arrangements, orchestrations and transcriptions are performed by orchestras around the world: professional orchestras, conservatories, universities, youth orchestras and gamer symphony orchestras founded by students.
How the project is sustained
The videos are free. The project is sustained by its members on Patreon, who support the hours of work behind each arrangement, and by the orchestras that commission arrangements for their concerts.
Arrangers
Most of the library is arranged by the founder of VGOScore, and some pieces come from guest arrangers, always credited on each page. Are you an orchestrator who writes game music for orchestra? Get in touch.
Andrés Soto
Composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor. His work spans film, television and advertising, and for years he has led amateur and semi-professional orchestras. He founded VGOScore in 2016 and has arranged most of its library.
His work as an orchestrator for other composers is at andres-soto.es.