Brian Tyler is a film composer, conductor, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Some of Brian's recent films are "Eagle Eye“ from producer Steven Spielberg and director DJ Caruso, "Rambo,” the new installment of Sylvester Stallone’s film franchise, the upcoming “Fast and Furious” (summer 2009), the science-fiction franchise film "Alien vs Predator: Requiem," "The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift", the thriller “Constantine” starring Keanu Reeves, Phil Atwell's thriller "War" starring Jet Li and Jason Statham, Disney's “The Greatest Game Ever Played” for director Bill Paxton, and “The Hunted” starring Tommy Lee Jones for Academy Award winning director William Friedkin.
He is scoring the upcoming action thriller "Bangkok Dangerous" starring Nicolas Cage, "John Rambo" starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, "Aliens vs Predator: Requiem" directed by the Brothers Strause for 20th Century Fox, and Justin Lin's mockumentary "Finishing the Game" about Bruce Lee's final film.
Tyler also recently scored “Timeline” based on the novel by Michael Crichton for director Richard Donner as well as Paramount's “Star Trek: Enterprise”, William Friedkin's thriller "Bug" starring Ashley Judd, and the romantic epic "Partition" set against war-torn India in 1947. Tyler's music was also featured in the theatrical trailers for "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Cinderella Man", "Master and Commander", "World Trade Center", "The Matrix Revolutions," "The Departed," and "The Aviator".
In July of 2006 his score for "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" hit 1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts. Tyler’s score for Bill Paxton’s “Frailty” won a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 while his soundtrack for “Children of Dune” was the 4 best selling album on Amazon.com during March of 2003. That score also won Brian a BSO Spirit Film Music Award for “Best Score of the Year."
He also composed music for the 2004 and 2006 Olympics and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his jazz score to “Last Call” starring Jeremy Irons and Sissy Spacek chronicling the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Other scores include Jonathan Liebesman 1 hit "Darkness Falls", Disney's "Annapolis" starring James Franco, "Godsend" starring Robert DeNiro, and Omar Naim's "The Final Cut" starring Robin Williams.
His main instruments are piano, drums and percussion, guitar and bass. He is also a conductor.
Tyler is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard University and was greatly inspired by his Academy Award winning art director grandfather Walter Tyler.
representation: The Gorfaine-Schwartz Agency.
written by Chasen and Associates,
May 2007
