Brian Tyler received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his master's degree from Harvard University. His love of film was greatly inspired by his Academy Award winning art director grandfather Walter Tyler who was one of the most nominated art directors of all time with 10 Academy Award nominations. As for music, he began composing at an early age and was performing his own concert pieces around the United States and Russia by his mid-teens. Tyler continued playing piano, classical percussion, guitar, bass, and drums in various orchestras, music ensembles, choirs, and bands all the way up to 1997 when he decided to enter the world of film scoring.
His most recent projects are the summer '06 release The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift and the historical epic Partition which is a romance set against the violent struggle between Pakistan and India in the 1940s. He also recently scored the Cannes Award winning film Bug for Academy Award winning director William Friedkin which will release in December 2006. Brian will also score the intense action thriller Time to Kill starring Nicolas Cage which is due for release in 2007. In 2005 Brian scored three films: Constantine from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Keanu Reeves, based on the DC/Vertigo comic Hellblazer, Bill Paxton's The Greatest Game Ever Played and Justin Lin's Annapolis.
Brian has composed over 35 scores in the last 5 years, and has been awarded with Cinemusic's "Best New Film Composer of the Year" (2001) and a 2002 Emmy "Best Score" nomination for The Last Call. In 2006 he received an ASCAP Award for Constantine.
In 2003 Brian scored the time-travel action-adventure Timeline for director Richard Donner, the action-drama The Hunted directed by Academy Award winning director William Friedkin (director of The Exorcist and The French Connection) for Paramount Pictures starring Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio del Toro. Also in 2003, Brian scored Darkness Falls for Revolution Studios, the Sci-Fi Channel's epic production Children Of Dune, for which Brian producing a best selling soundtrack album available on Varese Sarabande, the The Big Empty starring Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer and Rachael Leigh Cook, and Breck Eisner's Thought Crimes. Between these projects, Brian also scored two episodes of the second season of Enterprise.
Also in 2001, Tyler scored Frailty starring Matthew McConaughey. Director Bill Paxton said of Tyler, "I am deeply indebted to Brian for his contribution and commitment to excellence for creating this haunting, suspenseful and provocative score." Cinemusic called Brian's score "classy, dark and gorgeous" and Roger Ebert called Frailty "one of the best films of 2002."
Tyler also scored Henry Bromell's Last Call starring Jeremy Irons, Sissy Spacek , and Neve Campbell which chronicles the last days of F. Scott Fitzgerald with a moody noir score. A change of pace for Tyler came earlier the same year in the form of the romantic comedy A Piece of My Heart starring Piper Perabo, Jennifer Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano.
While Tyler is an award winning classical conductor, composer, and orchestrator, he also is a songwriter signed with Sony Music. His modern rock, pop, electronica, and hip-hop songs have become popular addition to the Sony Music catalog. Tyler's music was featured in the 2001 summer hit The Fast and the Furious.
Tyler also composed the modern orchestral score for Artisan Entertainment's highly regarded thriller Panic starring William H. Macy, Neve Campbell, and Donald Sutherland for director Henry Bromell. Roger Ebert heralded the film as "one of the 10 best films of the year." Both Bromell and Tyler were subsequently invited by Ebert to be interviewed for his documentary on the most overlooked movies of all time.
Shortly after scoring Panic, Tyler composed the score to the comedy Plan B starring Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, and Natasha Lyonne. Its music echoes the days of jazz and noir scores of the 1950s and was directed by Greg Yaitanes.
Tyler also scored Columbia Picture's John Carpenter's: Los Muertos, Jane Doe for producer Joel Silver and USA Films, the horror-comedy Bubba Ho-Tep starring Bruce Campbell as well as the theme and underscore for the CBS series The Education of Max Bickford starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden.
Before that, Tyler composed scores for Paramount Picture's Sirens as well as the intense thriller The 4th Floor starring William Hurt and Juliette Lewis - a score heralded by the director as "completely brilliant. Tyler's rich classical score far exceeded any expectations of what I thought any composer could have added to the film".
Brian is represented by The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency.
- Master's Degree from Harvard University
- Bachelor's Degree from UCLA
- Currently signed as a songwriter with Sony Music Publishing
- Primary instruments: vocals, drums, piano, keyboards, guitar
