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Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler conducting in 2011
Brian Tyler conducting in 2011
Background information
BornMay 8, 1974
OriginLos Angeles, California, United States
GenresFilm music, Classical, Rock, Electronic, Jazz
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, music producer, instrumentalist, film producer, music arranger
Instrument(s)Drums, Piano, Guitar, Percussion, Bass, Stringed instruments, Bouzouki, Cello, Keyboards
Years active1998 – present

Brian Tyler (born May 8, 1974) is an American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer most known for his scores of Iron Man 3, Eagle Eye, The Expendables, Battle: Los Angeles, The Final Destination, Rambo, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Law Abiding Citizen, Transformers: Prime, Constantine, The Expendables 2, Far Cry 3, and the Universal Studios 100 Year Anniversary logo music. He is signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. He was nominated for Film Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association. In 2010 Tyler was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2012 his films have grossed $3.5 billion theatrically.[1]

Early life

Born in Los Angeles, California, Tyler attended UCLA and Harvard University. His musical career began at an early age, after being inspired by his Academy Award winning art director grandfather, Walter H. Tyler. He traveled around the United States and to Russia, performing his various compositions at concerts. After a couple of years, Tyler began playing for orchestras, ensembles, choirs, using instruments, such as piano, classical percussion, guitar, bass, bouzouki, mandolin, keyboards, and drums.[2] Tyler was also featured in a number of rock bands and with artists, such as Elton John and Slash.

Musical career

Robert Kraft, who was impressed after hearing Tyler's music, encouraged Tyler to pursue a career in film scoring. He began his career in 1997, where he composed the film score for the independent film Bartender by Gabe Torres. The following year, he and Red Elvises composed the film score for Six-String Samurai.[3] Tyler wrote several musical scores, based on rap music for Simon Sez (1999). John Williams recommended Tyler to producer William Sherak for Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000). He has since scored four other films produced by Sherak, Darkness Falls (2003) and Bangkok Dangerous (2008), Middle Men (film) (2010), and Columbus Circle (2010) which he was an executive producer with Sherak.

Tyler's breakthrough came in 2001, after composing the film score for Frailty (2001).

"Well, the first film released that I scored was Six-String Samurai, but it was Frailty that helped me get some more exposure."[4]

William Friedkin, after being impressed by Frailty, called Tyler in to compose The Hunted (2003). Later, Tyler also wrote music for Star Trek: Enterprise, and Children of Dune over a span of one month, coinciding with his work on Darkness Falls.[5]

At the end of 2003, Tyler began working more on big-budget films, including Timeline (2003), Godsend (2004), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), and Constantine (2005).[6]

Tyler partnered with music producers Pharrell and Dr. Dre with the 2006 film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Before that, he had composed another Justin Lin film, Annapolis. To date, Tyler has scored two films, each of Bill Paxton, William Friedkin, Greg Yaitanes, and Henry Bromell.

He was then hired to do Partition (2007). He had to integrate Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score in Los Angeles with the Hollywood Studio Symphony.[7] Tyler also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the score to the film War.

In 2008, Tyler composed music for the 2008 films Rambo, Eagle Eye,[8] and The Lazarus Project.

After Steven Spielberg used Tyler's music for his trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Tyler was hired to compose the score for Eagle Eye which Spielberg produced along with Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci.

He continued by composing Dragonball Evolution,[9][10] Fast & Furious, The Final Destination, and recently Middle Men. Tyler was also one of the executive producers of Skyline, scored by his colleague Matthew Margeson.

He recently teamed up with director Sylvester Stallone for a second time and scored the #1 box office hit The Expendables. The soundtrack was a worldwide soundtrack best seller in the summer of 2010.

In 2010, Tyler began providing scores for videogames. His first one was MMOG Lego Universe and next two were True Crime: Hong Kong and Far Cry 3. Tyler also composed orchestral score for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which in the U.S. and UK alone and grossed $400 million on its first day, making it the biggest entertainment launch of all time. Later broke the record previously set to Avatar for fastest entertainment event reaching $1 billion in sales. This game also brought Tyler numerous accolades and best score of the year nominations.

On September 5, 2011 Tyler announced that he is currently in talks for scoring the 2011 remake of Highlander and scoring pilot episodes for the animated series Transformers: Prime.[11] Later, he has scored next 4 episodes. On October 7 it was announced that Tyler has been chosen to compose the music for pilot to the Steven Spielberg produced TV series Terra Nova.[12]

Tyler worked again with Kurtzman and Orci when he arranged Morton Stevens' classic Hawaii Five-0 theme for use in the 2010 CBS series produced by the duo.

In 2012, Tyler arranged and conducted a new version of the Universal Studios opening logo theme, updating the "classic melody" originally composed by Jerry Goldsmith.[13]

Also in 2012, it was revealed that he would compose the score for Marvel's Iron Man 3.

Other media

Tyler's cues for Children of Dune were used in the theatrical trailers for Star Trek (2009), Master and Commander (2003), Sahara (2005), Cinderella Man (2005), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). The track "Summon the Worms" from 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 (2007).[14] A version of the track "War Begins" is used in the first full-length theatrical trailer of Star Trek (2009).[15]

A cue from The Final Cut was used for the theatrical trailer for The Da Vinci Code (2006), and a track from Tyler's score for Annapolis was used for the theatrical trailer for World Trade Center (2006).

Besides films, Tyler's music has also been featured in the 2004 and 2006 Olympic Games, the 2006 NBA Finals, the 2006 Super Bowl, and the 2006 U.S. Open Golf Championship.

Awards and nominations

  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Composer of the Year
  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Action-Adventure Score of the Year - Fast Five
  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Science-Fiction Score of the Year - Battle: Los Angeles
  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Score for Television - Terra Nova
  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Video Game Score - Need for Speed: The Run
  • BSO Goldspirit Award Nominations (2012): Best Video Game Score - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  • Emmy Award Nomination (2002): Outstanding music composition for a miniseries, movie or special - Last Call
  • Emmy Award Nomination (2011): Outstanding music composition for a series - Transformers: Prime
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2009): Film Composer of the Year
  • BMI Film & TV Awards (2011): Fast Five, Battle: Los Angeles, The Expendables,Hawaii Five-0
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2009): Best Original score - The Killing Room
  • World Soundtrack Award Nomination (2002): Discovery of the year - Frailty
  • Cinescape Award Nomination (2002): Best score of the year - Frailty
  • Cinemusic Award (2002): Thriller score of the year - Frailty; Best New Composer of the Year
  • Cinescape Award (2003): Best score of the year - Timeline; best score of the year - Children of Dune.
  • BSOSpirit Film Music Award (2004): Revelation of the Year; Best Score of the Year (non-theatrical) - Children of Dune; Best Thriller / Horror Score of the Year - Darkness Falls
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2004): Best original horror / thriller motion picture score - The Final Cut
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2005): Best original horror / thriller motion pictures score - Constantine
  • ASCAP Film & TV Award (2006): Constantine
  • Filmtracks Award Nomination (2007): Best film score of the year - Partition.
  • iTunes Award (2008): Best score - Eagle Eye.
  • ASCAP Film & TV Awards (2010): Fast and Furious,The Final Destination,Law Abiding Citizen
  • Annual Game Music Award (2011): outstanding artist winner Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2011): Best original score for a video game - Lego Universe.
  • Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (2011): Outstanding achievement in music direction and composition - Transformers Prime.
  • BMI Film & TV Awards (2012): Hawaii Five-0, Terra Nova
  • The International Film Music Critics Association Award Nomination (2012): Best original score for a video game or interactive media - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Discography

Films

Year Title
1997 Bartender
1998 Final Justice (television film)
Six-String Samurai*
1999 The Settlement
The 4th Floor*
Simon Sez
Sirens (television film)
2000 Shadow Hours
Panic
Trapped in a Purple Haze (television film)
Four Dogs Playing Poker*
Terror Tract*
2001 Strings
Plan B*
Frailty*
Jane Doe (television film)
2002 Last Call
Bubba Ho-tep*
Vampires: Los Muertos
2003 Darkness Falls*
The Hunted*
Last Stand (short film)
The Big Empty*
Timeline*
Thoughtcrimes
2004 Perfect Opposites
The Final Cut*
Godsend*
Paparazzi*
2005 Clair obsur (short film)
Constantine*
The Greatest Game Ever Played*
Painkiller Jane (television film)
2006 Annapolis*
Bug*
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift*
2007 Finishing the Game*
Partition*
War*
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem*
2008 Rambo*
Bangkok Dangerous*
Eagle Eye*
The Lazarus Project*
2009 The Killing Room*
Dragonball Evolution*
Fast & Furious*
The Final Destination*
Law Abiding Citizen*
2010 The Expendables*
Middle Men*
2011 Battle: Los Angeles*
Tattoo (short film)
Fast Five*
Final Destination 5*
Inside
2012 The Expendables 2*
John Dies at the End*
Brake*
Columbus Circle*
2013 Iron Man 3
Now You See Me
Black Sky
Standing Up
2014 Invertigo

Television

Year Title
1997 Jenny
1998 Living in Captivity
2000 Level 9
2001 The Education of Max Bickford
2003 Frank Herbert's Children of Dune*
Star Trek: Enterprise (episodes "Canamar" and "Regeneration")
2007 Fear Itself (episode "The Sacrifice")*
2010 Vamped Out
Hawaii Five-0 (episodes "Pilot" and "Ohana")*
Transformers: Prime*
2011 Terra Nova*

Video games

Year Title
2010 Lego Universe
2011 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3*
Need for Speed: The Run*
2012 Far Cry 3*
2013 Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel*
  • *scores for which soundtrack albums have been released

References

  1. ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Composer&id=briantyler.htm
  2. ^ "About Brian Tyler". Briantyler.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Comerford, Jason. "Sayonara, baby! — Brian Tyler and Six-String Samurai". Islandlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
  4. ^ "SoundtrackNet : Interview — Brian Tyler". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  5. ^ Yaitanes, Greg. "Brian Tyler : Children of Dune". Briantyler.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  6. ^ "SoundtrackNet : Interview — Brian Tyler". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
  7. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (June 16, 2006). "Brian Tyler scores Partition". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  8. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (September 11, 2008). "Brian Tyler scores Eagle Eye". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  9. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (February 6, 2009). "Brian Tyler scores Dragonball Evolution". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  10. ^ "Brian Tyler Records Dragonball Score in Los Angeles (2009)". Dragonballmovieblog.net. Retrieved August 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ "Brian Tyler - Music Is Life". web.me.com. September 5, 2010. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
  12. ^ "Brian Tyler slated to score Terra Nova". Film Music Reporter. October 7, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ "Brian Tyler - Universal Studios Centennial Logo Behind the Scenes". YouTube. 5 March 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  14. ^ "?". YouTube. Retrieved August 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ "Adtunes Top Ad Music of 2008". Adtunes.com. Retrieved July 25, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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