Lena Raine


Lena Raine, also known as Lena Chappelle, is an American composer and producer. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of Celeste and Guild Wars 2. She has composed music for various other video games, including Minecraft and .

Life and career

Raine had an early exposure to music due to participation in choir at a young age. Her father was also a violinist. Through a Sonic fan community she was introduced to MIDI arrangement, first making MIDI versions of songs she knew and then making original music. She later attended Cornish College of the Arts for a degree in music composition.
Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of Celeste and Guild Wars 2. She worked at ArenaNet for six years, composing for Guild Wars 2 soundtracks. At ArenaNet, she and Maclaine Diemer were in-house composers of the music for the 2015 game expansion, . She left ArenaNet in 2016.
In 2018, Raine released the text adventure ESC on itch.io. Raine was the developer and composer for ESC, with visuals created by Dataerase. In 2019, she released her debut album, Oneknowing. She composed music for Minecraft, creating four new pieces of music for their 1.16 "Nether Update" in 2020. Raine created the soundtrack for the upcoming game, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, with a demo released in 2019.

Awards

Raine was nominated for a BAFTA and won American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Video Game Score of the Year in 2019.

Discography

Studio albums and songs

Soundtracks