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Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler conducting in 2011
Brian Tyler conducting in 2011
Background information
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 is an American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer known for his scores for motion pictures such as Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Eagle Eye, The Expendables, Fast Five, Fast and Furious, The Expendables 2, Law Abiding Citizen, The Final Destination, Rambo, Constantine, Now You See Me, and Battle: Los Angeles. He is signed with Sony Music as a songwriter and often conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 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.

Musical career

Tyler began scoring features shortly after he received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA and his master’s degree from Harvard University. 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.[1]

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."[2]

William Friedkin, after being impressed by Frailty, called Tyler in to compose The Hunted (2003) which won him a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 as well as The World Soundtrack Award as Best New Film Composer of the Year. 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.[3]

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).[4] His score for “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts, while his soundtrack for “Children of Dune” reached #4 on theAmazon.com album charts.

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.[5]

In 2008, Tyler composed music for the 2008 films Rambo, Eagle Eye,[6] and The Lazarus Project.

He continued by composing Dragonball Evolution,[7][8] Fast & Furious, The Final Destination, and Middle Men.

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.[9] 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.[10]

Tyler scored Iron Man 3 (2013).[11]

Tyler has received two Emmy Award nominations, 10 BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, and was recently nominated for a record 6 Goldspirit Awards (2012), including Best Composer of the Year. Tyler is a multi-instrumentalist, playing drums, piano, guitar, orchestral and world percussion, bass, cello, guitarviol, charango and bouzouki, amongst others.

Other media

Tyler also scored the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. He recently arranged and conducted the new film logo music for Universal Pictures and composed a theme for the 100-year anniversary of the studio. 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).[12] A version of the track "War Begins" is used in the first full-length theatrical trailer of Star Trek (2009).[13]

Discography

Films

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes Gross (Worldwide)
1997 Bartender Gabe Torres Java Films
1998 Final Justice Tommy Lee Wallace Television film
1998 Six-String Samurai Lance Mungia Palm Pictures
HSX Films
Overseas FilmGroup
1999 The Settlement Mark Steilen Davis Entertainment
CineTel Films
1999 The 4th Floor Josh Klausner Millennium Films
Top Floor Productions
1999 Simon Sez Kevin Elders TriStar Pictures
1999 Sirens John Sacret Young Paramount Network Television Television film
2000 Panic Henry Bromell Artisan Entertainment
2000 Shadow Hours Isaac H. Eaton 5150 Productions
Newmark Films Inc.
Seven Arts Productions
2000 Trapped in a Purple Haze Eric Laneuville Television film
Composed with Lauren Scheff
2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker Paul Rachman
2000 Terror Tract Lance W. Dreesen
Clint Hutchison
Giant Leap Entertainment
Tomorrow Film Corporation
2001 Strings Jill Tanner Depth Charge Productions
2001 Plan B Greg Yaitanes Half Moon Entertainment
New Moon Productions
2001 Offside Leanna Creel Anomaly Productions
Passion Films
Short film
2001 Frailty Bill Paxton Lions Gate Films
David Kirschner Productions
American Entertainment Co.
Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG
Cinedelta
2001 Jane Doe Kevin Elders USA Films
2002 Fitzgerald Henry Bromell Televison film
2002 Bubba Ho-tep Don Coscarelli Vitagraph Films
2002 Vampires: Los Muertos Tommy Lee Wallace Screen Gems
2003 Darkness Falls Jonathan Liebesman Columbia Pictures
Revolution Studios
2003 The Hunted William Friedkin Paramount Pictures
Lakeshore Entertainment
2003 Last Stand Gabe Torres Short film
2003 The Big Empty Steve Anderson Artisan Entertainment
2003 Timeline Richard Donner Paramount Pictures
2003 Thoughtcrimes Breck Eisner
2004 Perfect Opposites Matt Cooper
2004 The Final Cut Omar Naim Lions Gate Films
2004 Godsend Nick Hamm Lions Gate Films
2004 Paparazzi Paul Abascal 20th Century Fox
Icon Productions
2005 Clair obscur Benjamin Lemaire Short film
2005 Constantine Francis Lawrence Warner Bros. Pictures
Village Roadshow Pictures
Vertigo DC Comics
Composed with Klaus Badelt $230,884,728
2005 The Greatest Game Ever Played Bill Paxton Walt Disney Pictures
2005 Painkiller Jane Sanford Bookstaver Television film
2006 Annapolis Justin Lin Touchstone Pictures
2006 Bug William Friedkin Lionsgate
2006 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Justin Lin Universal Pictures
Original Film
Relativity Media
$158,468,292
2007 Finishing the Game Justin Lin IFC Films
2007 Partition Vic Sarin
2007 War Philip Atwell Lionsgate Known as Rogue Assassin in other territories
2007 Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem Colin Strause
Greg Strause
20th Century Fox
Davis Entertainment
Brandywine Productions
$128,884,494
2008 Rambo Sylvester Stallone Lionsgate
The Weinstein Company
Millennium Films
$113,244,290
2008 Bangkok Dangerous Pang Brothers Lionsgate
Virtual Studios
Saturn Films
$42,487,390
2008 Eagle Eye D. J. Caruso DreamWorks Pictures $178,100,000
2008 The Lazarus Project John Patrick Glenn Sony Pictures
2009 The Killing Room Jonathan Liebesman ContentFilm
2009 Dragonball Evolution James Wong 20th Century Fox
Dune Entertainment
$57,497,699
2009 Fast & Furious Justin Lin Universal Pictures
Original Film
Relativity Media
$363,164,265
2009 Middle Men George Gallo Paramount Vantage
2009 The Final Destination David R. Ellis New Line Cinema $186,167,139
2009 Law Abiding Citizen F. Gary Gray Overture Films $126,690,726
2010 The Expendables Sylvester Stallone Lionsgate
Millennium Films
$274,470,394
2011 Battle: Los Angeles Jonathan Liebesman Columbia Pictures
Original Film
$211,819,354
2011 Tattoo Bill Paxton Short film
2011 Fast Five Justin Lin Universal Pictures
Original Film
Relativity Media
$626,137,675
2011 Final Destination 5 Steven Quale Warner Bros. Pictures
New Line Cinema
$157,887,643
2012 John Dies at the End Don Coscarelli Magnet Releasing $141,951
2012 Columbus Circle George Gallo Lightning Entertainment
2012 Brake Gabe Torres IFC Films
2012 The Expendables 2 Simon West Lionsgate
Millennium Films
$300,428,192
2013 Standing Up D. J. Caruso AR Films
Aldamisa Entertainment
Seven Star Pictures
2013 Iron Man 3 Shane Black Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Marvel Studios
$1,212,000,000
2013 Now You See Me Louis Leterrier Summit Entertainment
Lionsgate
$212,700,000
2013 Fast & Furious 6 Justin Lin Universal Pictures
Original Film
Relativity Media
Only themes $741,204,380
2013 Thor: The Dark World Alan Taylor Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Marvel Studios
TBA
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jonathan Liebesman Paramount Pictures
Nickelodeon Movies
Platinum Dunes
TBA

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*
2013 Sleepy Hollow
Hatfields & McCoys

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. ^ Comerford, Jason. "Sayonara, baby! — Brian Tyler and Six-String Samurai". Islandlife. Archived from the original on November 8, 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
  2. ^ "SoundtrackNet : Interview — Brian Tyler". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  3. ^ Yaitanes, Greg. "Brian Tyler : Children of Dune". Briantyler.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 12 (help)
  4. ^ "SoundtrackNet : Interview — Brian Tyler". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved December 16, 2005. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 14 (help)
  5. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (June 16, 2006). "Brian Tyler scores Partition". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  6. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (September 11, 2008). "Brian Tyler scores Eagle Eye". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  7. ^ Goldwasser, Dan (February 6, 2009). "Brian Tyler scores Dragonball Evolution". Scoringsessions.com. Retrieved August 23, 2009.
  8. ^ "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)
  9. ^ "Brian Tyler - Music Is Life". web.me.com. September 5, 2010. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
  10. ^ "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)
  11. ^ "Brian Tyler to Score 'Iron Man 3′". Film Music Reporter. October 11, 2012. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "?". YouTube. Retrieved August 23, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ "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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