Brian Tyler

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Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler is a composer who has written, arranged, and conducted musical scores for film. His scores include Eagle Eye produced by Steven Spielberg, Fast and Furious, the William Friedkin directed The Hunted, and the 2005 supernatural action film Constantine. He is also signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. He previously scored the films The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Bug by William Friedkin and the Nicolas Cage starrer Bangkok Dangerous for a 2008 release. His recent films include the action thriller War starring Jet Li & Jason Statham, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem which was released by 20th Century Fox on Christmas Day 2007 and the Sylvester Stallone directed Rambo which was released on January 26, 2008, and the upcoming "Dragonball Evolution". He will be composing the musical score for the upcoming action film "Battle: Los Angeles" which is to be released later in 2009 from Columbia Pictures.

Background and musical work

As a graduate of Harvard University and prior to writing his first movie score, he was already composing and playing his own concert pieces in the United States and Russia. He plays the piano, classical percussion, guitar, bass, bouzouki, mandolin, keyboards, and drums. Over the years he has played in many orchestras, ensembles, choirs, and in a number of rock bands and with artists such as Elton John, Foo Fighter's drummer Taylor Hawkins, and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash. Brian is also a symphonic conductor and conducts his own scores.

Brian Tyler worked with music producers Pharrell and Dr. Dre on The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast and the Furious, and War.

Brian Tyler went to high school with drift racer Toshi Hayama and movie director McG

After hearing Tyler's music, film composer and 20th Century Fox's President of Music Robert Kraft[1], encouraged Tyler to pursue a career in film scoring. Composer John Williams [2] recommended Tyler to producer William Sherak for the 1999 film "Four Dogs Playing Poker". Tyler has since scored 2 other films produced by Sherak.

Brian Tyler's grandfather Walter H. Tyler was an Academy Award-winning art director for films such as "The Ten Commandments", "Shane", and "Sabrina".

Tyler's first professional scoring and songwriting assignment for the 1997 film Bartender led to interest from the producers of Six-String Samurai. Tyler wrote Six-String Samurai's score and composed and performed a song ("On My Way to Vegas") that accompanied the film's end credits.

Since then, Tyler has written more than 40 scores, including for the 2001 award winning film Frailty and Disney's uplifting The Greatest Game Ever Played, both directed by Bill Paxton. "Well, the first film released that I scored was Six String Samurai, but it was Frailty that helped get me some more exposure," Tyler said in an interview with SoundtrackNet in March 2005.[3] Director William Friedkin saw "Frailty" at the theater and called Brian in to score the action film "The Hunted" the following day.

Tyler scored a succession of big-budget films following Frailty, including The Hunted starring Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones, Timeline directed by Richard Donner, and Constantine based on the Hellblazer comic books.

Tyler also scored two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, and composed the score for Children of Dune based on the books by Frank Herbert. He wrote the 3 hour score for Children of Dune over a span of one month, coinciding with his work on Darkness Falls.

For Children of Dune Tyler played all wood and percussion instruments (including instruments he had built himself) and performed all male vocals. He also researched Herbert's Dune books and deciphered the fictional Fremen language in order to write the song "Inama Nushif" for the score.

Brian Tyler has collaborated with director Justin Lin three times: for the military drama "Annapolis", "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift", and "Finishing the Game". He has scored each of Bill Paxton's, William Friedkin's, Greg Yaitanes', and Henry Bromell's most recent two films.

In the film "Partition" Tyler integrated Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing for the epic about the splitting off of Pakistan from India in 1947 and the resulting violence and turmoil. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score in Los Angeles with the Hollywood Studio Symphony.

Brian Tyler conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the score to the film "War."

According to SoundtrackNet, Brian Tyler is slated to score "John Rambo [4]" for director Sylvester Stallone [5].

According to IMDB, Brian Tyler will compose the score for "Dragonball Evolution [6]" for director James Wong [7].

Score use in other media

Tyler's cues for Children of Dune were used in the theatrical trailers for Master and Commander, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Cinderella Man. The track "Summon the Worms" from the same miniseries (Children of Dune) was used as a leader for the Belgian/Dutch show Peking Express and in the first leaked promotional reel for The Golden Compass. [8] A version of the track "War Begins" is used in the first full-length theatrical trailer of Star Trek. [9]

A cue from The Final Cut was used for the theatrical trailer for The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard, and a track from Tyler's score for Annapolis was used for the theatrical trailer for World Trade Center directed by Oliver Stone.

Tyler's music has also been used for the 2004 and 2006 Olympic Games, the 2006 NBA Finals, the 2006 Super Bowl, and the 2006 U.S. Open Championship.

Awards

• In 2002 Tyler received an Emmy nomination for his score for Last Call.
• Tyler has twice won the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Constantine and The Final Cut.
• Tyler's scores for Darkness Falls and Children of Dune both won the BSOSpirit Award for Best Score of the Year in their respective categories in 2004.
• Tyler won the Cinemusic Award in 2002 for Best New Composer of the Year along with Frailty winning Best Thriller Score of the Year.
• Tyler was nominated for Discovery of the Year at the 2002 World Soundtrack Awards.

Filmography

Year	Score
2009	Dragonball Evolution Fast & Furious Final Destination 4
2008	Bangkok Dangerous* Rambo* The Lazarus Project Eagle Eye*
2007	Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem* Bug* War* Finishing the Game*
2006	The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift* Partition*
2005	Annapolis* The Greatest Game Ever Played* Constantine*
2004	Paparazzi* The Final Cut*
2003	Timeline* Godsend* Thoughtcrimes The Big Empty* Star Trek: Enterprise Children of Dune* The Hunted* Darkness Falls*
2002	Bubba Ho-Tep* A Piece of My Heart Vampires: Los Muertos Last Call
2001	Frailty* Plan B Jane Doe The Education of Max Bickford
2000	Panic Terror Tract* Shadow Hours Four Dogs Playing Poker* Trapped in a Purple Haze
1999	The 4th floor* Simon Sez The Settlement Level Nine
1998	Six-String Samurai* The Big Spin Final Justice Sirens Living In Captivity Eggs
1997	Bartender Jenny Discovery Channel: Animal Planet

• *scores for which soundtrack albums have been released

References

• "About Brian Tyler", BrianTyler.com, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Awards for Last Call (2002/I) (TV)", Internet Movie Database, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Brian Tyler: Children of Dune", BrianTyler.com, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Filmography", BrianTyler.com, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "IMDB Profile: Brian Tyler (IV)", Internet Movie Database, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Biography for Brian Tyler (IV)", Internet Movie Database, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Movie Music UK - Brian Tyler", Movie Music UK, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Music for Hell" by Dan Goldwasser, March 22, 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Sayonara, baby! Brian Tyler and Six-String Samurai" by Jason Comerford, Islandlife, 1998. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "The Fast and the Furious (2001)", Internet Movie Database, no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• "Brian Tyler Scores Eagle Eye (2008)", September, 2008
• "Brian Tyler Scores Dragonball (2009)", February, 2009
• "Brian Tyler Scores Partition (2008)", June, 2008
• "Brian Tyler Records Dragonball Score in Los Angeles (2009)", January, 2009

External links

• Official Brian Tyler website
• "Audioclips", BrianTyler.com, 2008. Retrieved September 02, 2008.
• "SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Brian Tyler", SCIFI.COM, March 5, 2003. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
• Brian Tyler at IMDb
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