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Brian Tyler (born 8 May 1978; age 46) is a composer and songwriter who wrote and conducted the music scores for the Star Trek: Enterprise second season episodes "Canamar" and "Regeneration". The scores from the latter one were later included in the 2014 CD release Star Trek: Enterprise Collection.
In addition, a segment of his score for the 2003 television mini series Children of Dune was re-orchestrated by Two Steps From Hell for use in the second trailer for 2009's Star Trek. The use of Tyler's score in the trailer came about from its use as a temporary scoring track in early post-production on the film.
Career[]
1997-2003[]
A recipient of a bachelor's degree from UCLA and a master's degree from Harvard University, Tyler has been scoring motion pictures since 1997. Some of his early film scores include The 4th Floor (1999, which featured Robert Costanzo), Shadow Hours (2000, which featured Michael Dorn and Brad Dourif), and Plan B (2001, starring Paul Sorvino). He also composed scores for a number of higher-profile films, Frailty (2002), Bubba Ho-tep (2002), Darkness Falls (2003), Paramount Pictures' The Hunted (2003, featuring Ron Canada) and Timeline (starring Neal McDonough).
Tyler earned an Emmy Award nomination for the score he wrote for Last Call (2002). In addition, he is well-known for composing the score to the hit Sci-Fi Channel mini-series Children of Dune, which starred Alec Newman, Steven Berkoff, and Alice Krige. His other television credits have included the movies Sirens (1999, starring Keith Carradine) and Jane Doe (starring Teri Hatcher) and UPN's Level 9. He has also written songs for a number of films, including several which he composed and/or orchestrated as well as the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious and Bang Bang You're Dead (2002).
2004-2013[]
Tyler and fellow composer Klaus Badelt won an ASCAP Award at the 2006 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for their work on Constantine (2005). Tyler's other film scores have included The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Bug (2006, starring Ashley Judd), War (2007, featuring Saul Rubinek), Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007, featuring Robert Joy), The Lazarus Project (2008, featuring Bob Gunton), and Rambo (2008). He also composed Eagle Eye (2008), which was produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Further projects include Fast & Furious (2009 and Fast Five (2011), both directed by Justin Lin, Dragonball Evolution (2009), The Final Destination (2009, directed by David Richard Ellis), Final Destination 5 (2011, with Tony Todd), Middle Men (2009, featuring Kelsey Grammer and Christopher McDonald), The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012), Battle: Los Angeles (2011), the television series Terra Nova (2011, produced by Brannon Braga and Rene Echevarria) and Transformers: Prime (2010-2013), and Iron Man 3 (2013, with William Sadler and Miguel Ferrer) and Thor: The Dark World (2013, starring Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba, and Alice Krige). For the latter film, Tyler also composed the distinctive fanfare that can be heard, accompanying the new Marvel logo, which has also been featured in every subsequent Marvel Studios film.
Tyler also scored the soundtrack for several video games including Lego Universe (2010, narrated by Patrick Stewart), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011), Need for Speed: The Run (2011), Far Cry 3 (2012), Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013, with Nolan North), and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry (2013).
Between 2003 and 2013, Tyler received six International Film Music Critics Award nominations, one Daytime Emmy Award nomination, seven BMI Film & TV Awards, seven ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards, and one Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his work.
Recent projects[]
More recent projects as composer include the Roberto Orci/Alex Kurtzman produced Hawaii Five-0 (2010-2014, starring Daniel Dae Kim), Sleepy Hollow (2013-2014) for which he received his second Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and Scorpion (2014), Into the Storm (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014, with Whoopi Goldberg), Truth (2015, starring Bruce Greenwood), and The Expendables 3 (2014), Furious 7 (2015, with Dwayne Johnson), and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, with Chris Hemsworth and produced by Stan Lee), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (2016) and Now You See Me 2 (2016).
External links[]
- BrianTyler.com – official site
- Brian Tyler at the Internet Movie Database
- Brian Tyler at Wikipedia
- Brian Tyler at X (formerly Twitter)