Wilbert Roget, II

Wilbert Roget II, born December 7, 1983 in Philadelphia, is an American composer specializing in music for video games and visual media. He began learning to play the piano at the tender age of four, and during his high school years developed a passion for cinematic storytelling in games, particularly through Japanese soundtracks by composers such as Nobuo Uematsu, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Yoko Kanno. After studying at Yale University, where he graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in music and took composition classes with Kathryn Alexander and Matthew Suttor, he embarked on a career as a professional composer. In 2008, he joined LucasArts as a staff composer, contributing to several productions in the Star Wars franchise, including Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011). He also worked as a music editor on other titles and composed for the Star Wars: First Assault project, whose orchestral soundtrack was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, although the game was never released. After the closure of LucasArts, he became an independent composer and collaborated on many varied projects, including Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (2014), Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire (2017), Call of Duty: WWII (2017), Destiny 2: Forsaken (2018), Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), for which he wrote the main theme and story mode music, then Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series, Call of Duty: Mobile, Mortal Kombat 1 (2023), as well as other productions such as Helldivers 2, Pacific Drive and Star Wars Outlaws in 2024. He is also involved in creating the music for the Netflix animated series Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance. A multi-instrumentalist, he records some of the parts for his soundtracks himself (flute, keyboard, guitar, accordion), and is also active as a sound library developer. In fact, he is co-founder of Impact Soundworks, a company that offers virtual instruments widely used by composers. Roget also pursues an academic and teaching career: he is a guest lecturer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music between 2018 and 2019, and lectures at Yale and the University of Rochester.