Background and musical work
Brian Tyler went to high school with drift racer Toshi Hayama and movie director McG.
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 Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash. Brian is also a symphonic conductor and conducts his own scores.
Brian Tyler worked with music producers Pharrell Williams and Dr. Dre on
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and
War.
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
Star Trek: Enterprise, 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/.
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