Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def ...

, conductor,

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, and

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, best known for his film, television, and video game scores. In his 24-year career, Tyler has scored '' Transformers: Prime'', '' Eagle Eye'', The Expendables trilogy, ''

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'', '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' with

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, '' Now You See Me'', and ''

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'', among others. He also re-arranged the current fanfare of the

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logo, originally composed by

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, for Universal Pictures' 100th anniversary, which debuted with ''

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'' (2012). He composed the 2013–2016

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logo, which debuted with '' Thor: The Dark World'' (2013), which he also composed the film's score. He composed the ''NFL Sunday Countdown Theme'' for

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and the

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theme (also used in

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and

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). He scored seven installments of the ''

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'' franchise, and the soundtrack for the Paramount TV series ''

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''. For his work as a film composer, he won the IFMCA Awards 2014 Composer of the Year. His composition for the film ''

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'' earned him the first of three Emmy nominations, a gold record, and induction into the music branch of the

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. As of November 2017, his films have grossed $12 billion worldwide, putting him in the top 10 highest-grossing film composers of all time.

Life and career

Tyler was born and raised in

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. His grandfather was art director Walter H. Tyler. One of his first major influences was his pianist grandmother. He holds a

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from the

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and a

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from

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. Growing up, he taught himself to play dozens of musical instruments, including drums, piano, guitar, bass, cello, world percussion, synthesizer, charango and bouzouki. Tyler began scoring features shortly after graduating from Harvard.

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, who was impressed with Tyler's music, encouraged him to pursue a career in film scoring. Tyler's first film score was for the

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''Bartender'' (1997), directed by Gabe Torres. The following year, he and

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composed the score for '' Six-String Samurai'' (1998). Tyler's breakthrough came in the early 2000s, after composing for '' Frailty'' (2001). His work on ''

'' (2002) earned him an induction into the music branch of the

. Director

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, impressed with Tyler's work on ''Frailty'', engaged him to compose for '' The Hunted'' (2003), which earned Tyler a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 for Best New Film Composer of the Year. Starting in 2003, Tyler began working on big-budget films, including ''

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'' (2003), '' Godsend'' (2004), ''

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'' (2005), and '' Constantine'' (2005). His score for '' The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) hit No. 1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts, and his soundtrack for ''Children of Dune'' reached No. 4 on the Amazon.com album charts.. His cues for ''Children of Dune'' were used in multiple other theatrical film trailers, including ''

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'' (2003), ''

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'' (2005), ''

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'' (2005), '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (2005), ''

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'' (2008), and ''

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'' (2009). The track "Summon the Worms" was used as a leader for the Dutch show ''Peking Express'', and in the first leaked promotional reel for '' The Golden Compass'' (2007). In 2007, he was hired to compose for '' Partition'' (2007), where he integrated Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score with the

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in Los Angeles. On September 5, 2011, Tyler announced that he was in talks to score the 2011 remake of ''

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'', and pilot episodes for the animated series '' Transformers: Prime''. He scored four episodes of the latter. In 2012, Tyler scored a new version of the fanfare of the

logo, originally composed by

, in observance of the studio's 100th anniversary. The new score added a choir, a more majestic arranging style, and a closing drum cadence. It made its debut alongside the logo with ''

'' on March 2, 2012. In 2013, Tyler composed the fanfare of

, which made its debut alongside the logo with '' Thor: The Dark World'', which he also composed the score of the film, on October 23, 2013, at the

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. Tyler wrote and produced the song " Shell Shocked" with Kill the Noise,

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and Moxie, released in the summer of 2014 under his artist name ''Madsonik''. It reached No. 2 on the iTunes hip-hop singles charts and has sold over 500,000 copies. On October 12, 2016, Tyler was hired to score the 2017 action-adventure film '' XXX: Return of Xander Cage''. He has also contributed to the soundtrack by his stage name Madsonik, in a collaboration with Tom Morello and Kill The Noise entitled "Divebomb". On March 2, 2018, he announced on Twitter that he had been hired to write a new theme for

; it was released on March 23. The theme was also used in both

and

. In August 2018, a 27-track soundtrack composed by Tyler for the cable TV series ''

'' was issued in CD format and as an MP3 download on Amazon.Amazon CD download services. Yellowstone soundtrack. Retrieved August 29, 2018

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Discography

Theatrical films

Short films

Television film

Television series

Television sports

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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