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Brian Tyler is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor who has scored over 100 films grossing $17B worldwide, including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Crazy Rich Asians, The Fast and the Furious franchise, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. He is also the composer behind the themes for Formula 1 and the U.S. Open Golf Championships. He has worked on hit series such as Yellowstone, immersive live shows such as Awakening at Wynn Las Vegas, and his own high-energy audiovisual project Are We Dreaming, which debuted to 30,000 fans at Lost Lands Music Festival. Recently Brian wrote the score for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Nuremberg, the serie Marshal and opening soon in theaters is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

In this episode of Composer Talk Brian Tyler takes us on a musical journey through Nuremberg, The Mario Galaxy Movie, Are We Dreaming, Formula 1 and Marshals. We also talk about health and life. 

I hope you enjoy this almost 56 minute Composer Talk conversation with the amazing Brian Tyler!

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Paul Leonard-Morgan is a composer who writes music for  film, television and video games. His unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him in high demand as a score composer & band producer, as well as a performer and artist in his own right. His film scores include Dredd, Limitless, Cyberpunk 2077, Boston Strangler,… Recently he has been working on the score for Amazon Prime’s Pretty Lethal and the Louis Theroux documentary Inside the Manosphere. Paul Leonard-Morgan won a BAFTA award and was nominated for an Emmy and Ivor Novello. 

In this episode of Composer Talk composer Paul Leonard-Morgan talks in-depth about his score for the film Pretty Lethal which is now on Amazon Prime. We talk about how he was able to mix ballet with action and suspense. We also take a look at his music for the Louis Theroux hit documentary Inside the Manosphere which can be seen on Netflix.

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Two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most respected film composers in the world today. Desplat first captivated American audiences with his score for The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. He has since scored a range of acclaimed films, twelve of which have been Oscar-nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Imitation Game, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Painted Veil for which he received a Golden Globe, and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, and The Grand Budapest Hotel which won the 2015 Oscar for Best Original Score. Desplat’s thematic score to Guillermo del Toro’s film The Shape of Water won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Original Score. Alexandre joined forces again with director Guillermo del Toro for the film Frankenstein. Next to that he wrote recently the music for Jurassic World: Rebirth, The Phoenician Scheme and many more.

In this episode of Composer Talk Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Guillermo del Toro on the film Frankstein. How it is to be nominated again for an Oscar. We zoom in on his score for Jurassic World: Rebirth and The Phoenician Scheme.

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Danny Elfman is an Oscar nominated composer who has written more than 100 film scores and is widely celebrated for his four-decade collaboration with director Tim Burton on films including Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Alice in Wonderland. Next to that he also wrote music for films such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Good Will Hunting, Milk, and the Men in Black franchise, along with iconic television themes for The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, and Wednesday. Recently he has worked on Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire, Sam Raimi’s Send Help, and Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale.

In this episode of Composer Talk composer Danny Elfman talks about his latest films Dracula: A Love Tale, Send Help and Dead Man’s Wire. We take a look back at the beginning of his career as a composer and he shares some details about a project he’s working on with John Powell and Marco Beltrami.

Enjoy listening to this great new episode of Composer Talk! 

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Nicholas Pike is an Emmy Award-winning Hollywood composer who has scored films ranging from the family-oriented Captain Ron, Return to Me and Virginia’s Run to darker films like Fear Dot Com, The Shining mini-series and The I Inside. He has scored large scale music videos like Michael Jackson’s Ghost, Rock My World and Will Smith’s Wild, Wild West. He won in 2013 the  Outstanding Music and Sound Emmy for the HBO documentary In Tahrir Square. He wrote music for the Apple TV+ reboot of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg and Bonnie Hunt’s Amber Brown for the Apple streaming service, as well as the documentaries 100 Years about Native American activist Elouise Cobell and Fiddlin’ about the roots of Bluegrass music. His current releases include Viva Verdi!, which features his composition, the OSCAR® Nominated Best Song Sweet Dreams of Joy, performed by Grammy-winning soprano Ana Maria Martinez and the romantic comedy Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off, written and directed by Liz Guest.
In this new episode of Composer Talk composer Nicholas Pike talks about how he got into film scoring and we focus on his song Sweet Dreams of Joy for which he is nominated this year for an Oscar for Best Song. He wrote this and the score for the documentary Viva Verdi!
Check out this great conversation with Nicholas Pike in this new episode of Composer Talk!