Works
Original music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and choir, orchestral arrangements, and scores for games, film and theatre.
Photo: Philippe Ramakers
Original compositions
- 2006 Mimesis for Viola and Performer's Voice Solo viola and performer's voice; second place, Isofestival 2006
- 2006 Production Values Mini-concerto for trumpet and orchestra
- 2007 Pianosonata I Piano
- 2007 Elegiac Honourable mention, Adagio Composition Contest 2007
- 2008 Tango Nellille Orchestra; WDR commission, concert premiere 6 March 2010
- 2009 Fanfare Overture Orchestra; premiered 11 September 2009, König-Pilsener-Arena, Oberhausen, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, conducted by Arnie Roth
- 2010 Fanfare for the Common 8-Bit Hero Orchestra; premiered 23 September 2010, Cologne Philharmonie, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, conducted by Niklas Willén
- 2013 Fantasy Overture Orchestra; premiered 11 May 2013, Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eckehard Stier
- 2013 Culicidae Night Male voice choir
- 2015 In a Roundabout Way Orchestra; premiered 29 August 2015, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, conducted by Eckehard Stier
- 2017 Tales from Moominvalley Eight-movement suite for orchestra, children's choir, vocalists, dancer and narrators; premiered 9 August 2017, Tampere Hall, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali
- 2019 Song of the Scarlet Flower About 100 minutes of new music for Mauritz Stiller's 1919 silent film; premiered 12 April 2019, Tampere Hall, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Günter Buchwald
- 2020 The Droplet and the Ocean Clarinet, violin and piano; Finnish premiere 9 February 2020, Tampere Hall
Orchestral arrangements
- 2008 Symphonic Shades – Hülsbeck in Concert Lead arranger and orchestrator; WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Cologne
- 2009 Symphonic Fantasies – Music from Square Enix Lead arranger; composed the opening "Fanfare Overture"; WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Oberhausen and Cologne
- 2010 Symphonic Legends – Music from Nintendo Sole arranger of the five-movement Legend of Zelda symphonic poem; composed "Fanfare for the Common 8-Bit Hero"; WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Cologne
- 2011 Symphonic Odysseys Lead arranger with Roger Wanamo; WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Cologne; restaged in 2017 in Paris and London with the London Symphony Orchestra
- 2013 Final Symphony Primary arranger; composed "Fantasy Overture" and arranged the Final Fantasy VII symphony; Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, Wuppertal
- 2015 Final Symphony II Arranged the Final Fantasy V section; orchestrated and partly arranged Final Fantasy XIII from Masashi Hamauzu's arrangement; composed "In a Roundabout Way"; Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bonn
- 2016 Turrican II in concert Co-arranger of new Turrican II orchestral selections with Roger Wanamo; Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Bochum
- 2017 Game Music Collective in Concert Arranger with Roger Wanamo and Jani Laaksonen; Game Music Collective, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
- 2018 Symphonic Selections – Video Game Music in Concert Arranger with Roger Wanamo; Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Konzerthaus Dortmund
- 2018 Symphonic Memories – Music from Square Enix Arranger with Roger Wanamo; Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm
- 2025 Game On! One of six credited arrangers; Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Tampere Hall, Tampere
Final Symphony has toured since its 2013 premiere in Wuppertal. The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra played it in Tampere Hall in September 2014, and the studio recording was made with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in December 2014 and released in 2015. Final Symphony II premiered in Bonn in 2015 and toured to London, Osaka, Yokohama, Tampere, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Essen; its studio album, recorded with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and released in 2023, reached number 2 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover chart.
Valtonen has also written a violin concerto on themes from Octopath Traveler, music by Yasunori Nishiki.
Games, film and theatre
- 1996 Death Rally Composer; Remedy Entertainment
- 1996 Alien Incident Music and sound effects; Housemarque
- 1999 Drop Mania Composer
- 2000 Puzzle Station Music and sound effects
- 2001 Rampage Puzzle Attack Music and sound; Game Boy Advance
- 2002 House by the Sea Score for Janne Ketola's film; IFCT award for best original soundtrack
- 2004 Insaniquarium! Deluxe Music
- 2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Music
- 2008 Golf: Tee It Up! Music
- 2012 Dragon's Dogma Music orchestration and supervision; Capcom
- 2014 Mobile Suit Gundam: Side Stories Composer and arranger; Bandai Namco
- 2015 Cities: Skylines Composer with Jani Laaksonen; Colossal Order
- 2015–2023 Cities: Skylines expansions and editions Music
- 2016 Street Fighter V "Theme of Urien"; Capcom
- 2017 Albion Online Composer; Sandbox Interactive, recorded with a symphony orchestra
- 2019 Jump Force One of the composers; Bandai Namco
- 2023 Cities: Skylines II Main theme, recorded with the Staatskapelle Weimar under Eckehard Stier; Colossal Order
He also wrote incidental music for theatre productions in Turku in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Demoscene archive
Valtonen was the lead composer of Future Crew between 1991 and 1996, under the name Purple Motion. He wrote in ScreamTracker 3, which was developed inside the group, and later in FastTracker II. In 2019 he collected 33 of these tracks on the album Tracked (1991–2000).
- 1992 Unreal Future Crew demo; first place, Assembly 1992
- 1992 Panic Future Crew demo; second place at The Party 1992; he composed the 16-channel techno track
- 1993 Second Reality Future Crew demo; first place, Assembly 1993; one of its two tracker tracks is his
- 1993 Sundance First place, PC music 4-channel, Assembly 1993
- 1993 Starshine Fifth place, PC music multichannel, Assembly 1993
- 1993 Shadowrun First place, music competition, Aggressive Party 1993
- 1994 When The Heavens Fall Fourth place, 32-channel music, Assembly 1994
- 1995 Astraying Voyages Eighth place, multichannel music, Assembly 1995
- 1999 Credits First place, MP3 music, Assembly 1999
- 2024 Superselection Music for the demo; second place, Assembly Summer 2024