We Play Together: Music & Gaming

3-day Interdisciplinary Residency

April 15-19, 2025

The Intersection of Curiosity, Innovation, Creativity, and Exploration

Poster for an event titled 'We Play Together' organized by Wake Forest University Symphony Orchestra, featuring music from Starfield and Fallout. The event takes place from April 17-19, 2025, including masterclass, speaker forum, concert performance, and esports tournament, with a science fiction-themed background illustration and a large group of musicians at the bottom.

Part 1: Masterclass

Video Game Music Composition Masterclass with Inon Zur
Thursday, April 17, 1:30pm – 3:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall

Part 2: Community Engagement

Open Dress Rehearsal with Winston-Salem Forsyth County High School Students
Thursday, April 17, 4:30 – 6:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall

Part 3: Speaker Forum & Career Conversations

Interdisciplinary Innovation: Merging Music, Gaming, and Business in Exploration
Speaker Forum with Guest Speaker Dan Tani, astronaut
and panelists Pete Hines, Inon Zur and Symphony Orchestra Director J. Aaron Hardwick; Moderated by Roscoe Bell
Friday, April 18, 11am-12:30pm, Broyhill Auditorium – School of Business

Exploring Possibilities: A Career Conversation with Dan Tani
Friday, April 18, 3pm – 4:15pm, Olin 101
Open to students, faculty, & staff of the WFU Departments of Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Part 4: Concert Performance

Concert (music from Starfield and Fallout) with Guest Artist, Inon Zur
Friday, April 18, 7:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall
Reception in lobby to follow

Part 5: Gaming Event & Tournament

Esports LAN Event sponsored by WFU Esports Association
Saturday, April 19, 10am – 2pm, Benson Student Center

Special Guests

Headshot of Inon Zur, Emmy-Award winning composer for games and film. A man with a bald head and wearing a dark button-up shirt, looking to his left in front of a blurred yellow background.

Inon Zur

EMMY award-winner and three-time BAFTA-nominated composer Inon Zur is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful composers in the media industry today, internationally renowned for his emotionally dynamic original music scores for popular video game franchises including STARFIELD, FALLOUT, DRAGON AGE, PRINCE OF PERSIA, SYBERIA and THE ELDER SCROLLS.

Portrait of a man in a blue NASA astronaut jumpsuit with an American flag patch, set against a background featuring the moon and outer space.

Dan Tani

Daniel (Dan) Tani is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was selected by NASA in 1996. Tani flew on STS-108 in 2001 and served as a flight engineer for Expedition 16 in 2007, totaling 132 days in space. After retiring from the astronaut program in 2012, he has been a high school teacher in Japan, a Director at a non-profit Foundation in New York, and now works for an aerospace contractor.

Headshot of Pete Hines, former VP of Marketing and Head of Publishing at Bethesda Softworks. A man with short, gray hair and a microphone headset speaking on stage with a galaxy-themed background.

Pete Hines

Pete Hines is a developer who previously served as senior vice president of global marketing & communications, as well as the head of publishing, at Bethesda Softworks. He was in charge of public relations and marketing of games published by Bethesda, and was credited on including Fallout, Skyrim, Starfield, and DOOM.

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