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Brian Tyler is an American composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician, and songwriter, who has composed scores for film, television and video games. He is also credited for composing the current fanfare of the Universal Pictures logo, the updated Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with ''Thor: The Dark World'' (2013), as well as the ''NFL Theme'' for ESPN. For his work as a film composer, he has won multiple awards, including ASCAP Awards and IFMCA Awards. In 2002, his composition for the film ''Last Call'' earned him an induction into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.〔()〕 As of May 2015, his films have grossed $9.5 billion worldwide.〔()〕 == Life and career == Tyler was born and raised in Orange County, California. His grandfather was Academy Award-winning art director Walter H. Tyler. One of his first major influences was his pianist grandmother.〔(Interview with Brian Tyler 8Dio ) 〕 He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master's from Harvard University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://briantyler.com/Composer/Bio.html )〕 Growing up, he taught himself to play at least 30 different types of musical instruments, including drums, piano, guitar, bass, cello, world percussion, synthesizer, charango and bouzouki.〔(Interview: Brian Tyler « corduroy magazine ) 〕 Tyler is an atheist.〔" "I became an atheist through years of studying to be a Christian apologist." 'The Kevin Pollak Chat Show', 1 January 2010〕 Tyler began scoring features shortly after graduating from Harvard. Robert Kraft, who was impressed by Tyler's music, encouraged him to pursue a career in film scoring. He began his career by composing the film score for the independent film ''Bartender'' (1997), directed by Gabe Torres. The following year, he and Red Elvises composed the film score for ''Six-String Samurai'' (1998). Tyler's breakthrough came in 2001, after composing for ''Frailty'' (2001). His work on ''Last Call'' (2002) earned him an induction into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.〔 William Friedkin, after being impressed by his work on ''Frailty'', called Tyler in to begin composing for ''The Hunted'' (2003), which went on to earn Tyler a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 for Best New Film Composer of the Year. Starting in 2003, he began working on big-budget films, including ''Timeline'' (2003), ''Godsend'' (2004), ''The Greatest Game Ever Played'' (2005), and ''Constantine'' (2005). His score for ''The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts, while his soundtrack for "Children of Dune" reached #4 on the Amazon.com album charts.. His cues for ''Children of Dune'' were used in multiple other theatrical film trailers, including ''Master and Commander'' (2003), ''Sahara'' (2005), ''Cinderella Man'' (2005), ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (2005), ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' (2008), and ''Star Trek'' (2009). The track "Summon the Worms" was used as a leader for the French 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 had to integrate Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony in Los Angeles. On September 5, 2011, Tyler announced that he was currently in talks for scoring the 2011 remake of ''Highlander'', as well as pilot episodes for the animated series ''Transformers: Prime''. He went on to score four episodes of the series. In addition to working as a composer, Tyler also wrote and produced the song "Shell Shocked" with Kill the Noise, Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign, Juicy J and Moxie that was released in the summer of 2014 under his artist name ''Madsonik''. The track went on to peak at #2 on the iTunes hip-hop singles charts and has sold over 300,000 copies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Tyler (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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