| Brian Tyler | |
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Brian Tyler conducting in 2011 |
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| Background information | |
| Born | May 8, 1972 |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Genres | Film music, Video game music, Classical, Rock, Electronic, Jazz |
| Occupations | Composer, conductor, music producer, instrumentalist, film producer |
| Instruments | Drums, Piano, Guitar, Percussion, Bass, Stringed instruments, Bouzouki, Cello, Keyboards |
| Years active | 1998 – present |
Brian Tyler (born 8 May 1972) is an American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer most known for his scores of Eagle Eye, The Expendables, Battle: Los Angeles, The Final Destination, Rambo, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Final Destination 5. Tyler is a symphonic conductor and conducts his own scores. 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.
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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 to United States and Russia, performing at concerts with his own written and composed pieces. 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.[1] Tyler was also featured in a number of rock bands and with artists, such as Elton John and Slash.
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.[2] 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."[3] | ” |
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.[4]
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).[5]
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.[6] 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,[7] 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,[8][9] 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.[10] However, on February 9, 2011, Activision announced that True Crime: Hong Kong was canceled. Tyler also composed music for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, recorded with a symphony orchestra, and Need for Speed: The Run.
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.
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).[13] A version of the track "War Begins" is used in the first full-length theatrical trailer of Star Trek (2009).[14]
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.
| Year | Title |
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| 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 |
| Year | Title |
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| 2010 | Lego Universe |
| 2011 | Need for Speed: The Run* Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3* Far Cry 3 |