"What Acree achieves with his combination of orchestration skills and technological wizardry is quite amazing...
Anyone looking for a grand, epic score with a really great theme should hire this guy."
- Mikael Carlsson, Music From The Movies

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A fan of movies and their music from a very early age, Neal's first records were soundtracks by John Williams,
Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner and others. Though originally planning a career in art, his early experiments in instrumental electronic music began to take over his life. After studying classical, ethnic and electronic music
(including a semester in England), Neal began to see that film scoring was the
ideal outlet for his love of movies and music.

Early in his career, Neal had the opportunity to work in cartage, transporting and setting up music equipment
at major Hollywood scoring sessions. This gave him a unique "fly on the wall" perspective of nearly all of the A-list
Hollywood composers at work including Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, David
Newman, Randy Newman, John Barry, Alan Silvestri, Bill Conti, John Debney and James Newton Howard.

This proved to be an invaluable learning experience, as well as an opportunity to meet and eventually
apprentice with such distinguished composers as Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, City Slickers), Richard Marvin
(The O.C. , Six Feet Under), and Joel Goldsmith (Stargate SG-1, Call Of Duty 3).

In addition to winning 3 Game Audio Network Guild Awards and being nominated twice, Neal was also
nominated for 3 Academy Of Interactive Arts and Sciences Awards.