The non-profit Production Music Association (PMA,) the leading advocate and voice of the production music community, has announced that acclaimed composer Brian Tyler will be the keynote speaker for the PMA’s 2nd Annual Production Music Conference. Tyler will speak from 9-10am on September 9, at the DGA headquarters in Los Angeles. A multi-award winner, Tyler is the composer of music for over 70 films, and the recipient of the 2014 Cue Awards “Film Composer of the Year” honor.
Tyler composed blockbuster hits “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Furious 7,” “Iron Man 3,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Kingsley, as well as “Thor: The Dark World,” starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Anthony Hopkins. He conducted the London Philharmonic at Abbey Road Studios for both films. He also scored “Eagle Eye” for producer Steven Spielberg, and the box office hits “Fast Five” and “Fast & Furious” for director Justin Lin. He was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA Games Award and was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2010.
After composing the score for “The Hunted” for Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin, Tyler composed the score for the turn-of-the-century drama “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” starring Shia LaBeouf. Tyler’s soundtrack for “Children of Dune” reached #4 on the Amazon.com album charts while “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Furious 7,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Iron Man 3,” and “Fast Five” all hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack charts.
Recently, Tyler scored the Michael Bay-produced “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” the action-packed disaster thriller “Into the Storm,” and the epic adventure “The Expendables 3.” Tyler also created the new theme music for ESPN’s NFL studio shows, representing the first updated original score for ESPN’s NFL shows since 1997. In 2015, Tyler created a new groundbreaking musical theme for the 115th U.S. Open Championship on FOX broadcast network and FOX Sports 1.
Upcoming for Tyler is the feature film “Truth,” starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes and Robert Redford as Dan Rather. For television, he scores the series “Scorpion,” “Hawaii Five-0,” and “Sleepy Hollow,” for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music in 2014.
The PMA’s Production Music Conference gathers the production music industry’s top suppliers and decision-makers under one roof for one day. Concurrent with the 2nd Annual Production Music Conference, the inaugural “Mark Awards”-–honoring Excellence in Production Music–will also take place on September 9, at the DGA headquarters in Los Angeles. The event will run from 7-9pm.
