Brian Tyler (composer)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Brian Tyler

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Occupation = Composer, conductor, music producer, instrumentalist
Instrument = drums, Piano, guitar, percussion, bass, stringed instruments
Genre = Film score
Years_active = 1997-

Brian Tyler is a composer who has written, arranged, and conducted musical scores for film. His scores include the William Friedkin directed "The Hunted" and the 2005 supernatural action film "Constantine". He is also signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. He recently scored the films ', "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, ' which was released by 20th Century Fox on Christmas Day 2007 and the Sylvester Stallone directed "Rambo" which was released on January 26, 2008. He will be composing the musical score for the upcoming Live Action Adaptation of Dragonball which is to be released April 10, 2009.

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 "" and "War."

Brian Tyler went to high school with drift racer Toshi Hayama and movie director Joseph McGinty Nichol.

After hearing Tyler's music, film composer and 20th Century Fox's President of Music Robert Kraft [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0469234/] , encouraged Tyler to pursue a career in film scoring. Composer John Williams [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002354/] 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 30 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. [http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=141] 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 "", 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 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462499/] " for director Sylvester Stallone [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/] .

According to "IMDB", Brian Tyler will compose the score for "DragonBall [http://imdb.com/title/tt1098327/] " for director James Wong [http://imdb.com/name/nm0939128/] .

core use in other media

Tyler's cues for "Children of Dune" were used in the theatrical trailers for ', ', "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". [http://youtube.com/watch?v=58X4o_41Frc]

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

* *scores for which soundtrack albums have been released

References

* [http://www.briantyler.com/about_brian.html "About Brian Tyler"] , "BrianTyler.com", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302240/awards/ "Awards for Last Call (2002/I) (TV)"] , "Internet Movie Database", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.briantyler.com/filmography_disc/children_of_dune.html "Brian Tyler: Children of Dune"] , "BrianTyler.com", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.briantyler.com/filmography.html "Filmography"] , "BrianTyler.com", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003911/ "IMDB Profile: Brian Tyler (IV)"] , "Internet Movie Database", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003911/bio/ "Biography for Brian Tyler (IV)"] , "Internet Movie Database", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.moviemusicuk.us/tyler.htm "Movie Music UK - Brian Tyler"] , "Movie Music UK", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.soundtrack.net/features/article/?id=141 "Music for Hell"] by Dan Goldwasser, March 22, 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.sixstringsamurai.com/tyler.html "Sayonara", baby! Brian Tyler and "Six-String Samurai"] by Jason Comerford, "Islandlife", 1998. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0232500/combined/ "The Fast and the Furious (2001)"] , "Internet Movie Database", no date. Retrieved December 16, 2005.

External links

* [http://www.briantyler.com Official Brian Tyler website]
* [http://www.briantyler.com/audio.html "Audioclips"] , "BrianTyler.com", 2008. Retrieved September 02, 2008.
* [http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/2003/btyler3.5.html/ "SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Brian Tyler"] , "SCIFI.COM", March 5, 2003. Retrieved December 16, 2005.
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