Thomas Böcker

Thomas Böcker is a pioneer in the field of symphonic video game music and probably the genre's most influential concert producer in the Western world. In 2003 he organized the first game music concert outside of Japan, performed at the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany, a feat for which he was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records. Encouraged by the concert’s success he has since gone on to produce and consult on dozens of similar events all over the world.

Today, Thomas Böcker continues to work as a producer with famous orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. His work with the London Symphony Orchestra is of particular note, having produced their first ever game concert in 2013, Final Symphony, and also for touring with the London Symphony Orchestra in Japan on Final Symphony II, the first ever video game concert tour in the country by a foreign orchestra. Thomas Böcker was also behind the London Symphony Orchestra’s Abbey Road Studios recording of the bestselling Final Symphony album.

In 2015, Thomas Böcker was presented with the national Cultural and Creative Pilots award by the German Federal Government, which recognises outstanding entrepreneurs within Germany’s cultural and creative industries.