Brian Tyler

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Brian Tyler is a composer and songwriter who wrote and conducted the music scores for the second season episodes and . The scores from the latter one were later included in the 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 's . 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, (2002), (2002), (2003), Paramount Pictures' (2003, featuring Ron Canada) and Timeline (starring Neal McDonough).
Tyler earned an Emmy Award nomination for the score he wrote for (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 . 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 (2002).
=== 2004-2013 ===
Tyler and fellow composer won an ASCAP Award at the 2006 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for their work on (2005). Tyler's other film scores have included (2006), (2006, starring Ashley Judd), (2007, featuring Saul Rubinek), (2007, featuring Robert Joy), (2008, featuring Bob Gunton), and (2008). He also composed (2008), which was produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Further projects include (2009 and (2011), both directed by Justin Lin, (2009), (2009, directed by David Richard Ellis), (2011, with Tony Todd), (2009, featuring Kelsey Grammer and Christopher McDonald), (2010) and (2012), (2011), the television series Terra Nova (2011, produced by Brannon Braga and Rene Echevarria) and (2010-2013), and (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 (2010-2014, starring Daniel Dae Kim), Sleepy Hollow (2013-2014) for which he received his second Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and Scorpion (2014), (2014), (2014, with Whoopi Goldberg), (2015, starring Bruce Greenwood), and (2014), (2015, with Dwayne Johnson), and (2015, with Chris Hemsworth and produced by Stan Lee), (2016) and (2016).
== External links ==
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