Pinar Toprak

Pinar Toprak is a Turkish–American composer of film scores. Her scores have won two International Film Music Critics Association Awards: one in 2010 for the film The Lightkeepers and a second in 2011 for the documentary The Wind Gods. Her win for The Lightkeepers made her the first woman to win an IFMCA Award.^[1][2]

Pinar was born in Istanbul and studied violin, voice, classical guitar, and composition at the Istanbul State Conservatory. In 1997, Pinar moved to Chicago and studied piano and jazz theory with many master jazz pianists. Later, she studied at Berklee College of Music and received a bachelor’s degree in film scoring. After moving to Los Angeles, she worked at Media Ventures (now known as Remote Control Productions) under the composer Hans Zimmer.^[3]

Credits

Films

• Geostorm (2017)
• Restos (2012)
• The River Murders (2011)
• The Wind Gods (2011)
• Last Will (2011)
• Girls! Girls! Girls! (2011)
• How to Have a Happy Marriage (2011)
• Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf (2010) (TV movie)
• Mongolian Death Worm (2010) (TV movie)
• The Lightkeepers (2009)
• Breaking Point (2009)
• The Crimson Mask (2009)
• Wyvern (2009) (TV movie)
• Pregnant in America (2008) (documentary)
• Ba'al (2008) (TV movie)
• Light of Olympia (2008)
• Ogre (2008) (TV movie)
• Ocean of Pearls (2008)
• Beyond Loch Ness (2008) (TV movie)
• Say It in Russian (2007)
• In the Name of the Son (2007)
• Fall Down Dead (2007)
• Sinner (2007)
• Daydreamer (2007)
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006)
• When All Else Fails (2005)
• Headbreaker (2004)
• Hold The Rice (2004)

Video games

• Ninety-Nine Nights

External links

• Official website

References