Christopher Tin

田志仁(Christopher Tin)，1976年出生于加利福尼亚，华裔作曲家。田志仁(Christopher Tin)制作的专辑《Calling all Dawns(呼唤黎明)》，获得“最佳古典跨界专辑（Best Classical Crossover Album）”，Baba Yetu获"最佳配器伴奏奖"
Christopher Tin is an American composer, best known for his composition Baba Yetu, featured in the 2005 computer game, Civilization IV.
Christopher Tin was born and raised in California. He worked on his undergraduate education at Oxford and Stanford University. At Stanford, he was active in the taiko group, Stanford Taiko, and conducted the a cappella group, Stanford Talisman, several musicals, and choral concerts at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. While there, he roomed with video game designer Soren Johnson. He graduated in 1998, receiving a BA with Honors in music composition and English literature. He continued to study at Stanford and received an MA in humanities in 1999. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, becoming the first to be awarded one for film scoring, to study composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music in London, and he graduated with a MMus with Distinction. He was also the winner of the Horovitz composition prize, and graduated with the highest grades in his class. He was also commissioned by the US Embassy in London to compose music for a string quartet. In 2003, he became a Sundance Institute Film Music Lab Fellow.
Tin returned to Los Angeles and continued his career by producing TV show music and working as an intern with Hans Zimmer, composer for The Lion King and Gladiator, and Joel McNeely, with whom he worked on Mulan II John Ottman contacted him to work on X-Men 2, for which he composed several original themes. He also composed "Daydream" for Apple Inc.'s music software, GarageBand, and the music for an international advertisement of Puma AG. He also worked on TV show music, notably for Nova, The History Channel, and Discovery Channel.
Baba Yetu
By far his biggest break came in 2005, when Soren Johnson, his roommate at Stanford and now working as a game designer at Firaxis Games, asked him to compose the theme song for Civilization 4. Tin responded with "Baba Yetu," a choral piece performed by Stanford Talisman. Its lyrics are a Swahili version of the Lord's Prayer. It garnered a huge critical response, with over 20 reviewers singling out the theme on IGN, GameSpy, and Game Shark, and is a persistent favorite of blog posts. Contemporary Tommy Tallarico called it "incredible".It won him two awards at the GANG (Game Audio Network Guild) Awards in 2007.
He currently lives in Santa Monica, California.His debut album Calling All Dawns was released on October 1, 2009.