LOS ANGELES — Composer/conductor Brian Tyler (www.briantyler.com) will keynote PMC2015, the 2nd Annual Production Music Conference, set to take place on September 9th in Los Angeles. Tyler has worked on over 70 films and recently won Film Composer of the Year at the 2014 Cue Awards. His recent credits include Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Into the Storm, and
The Expendables 3. His television work includes
Scorpion, Hawaii Five-0 and
Sleepy Hollow, for which he received an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music” in 2014.
Tyler began scoring features shortly after he received his master's degree from Harvard University, as well as a bachelor's degree from UCLA. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays piano, guitar, drums, bass, cello, world percussion, synth programming, guitarviol, charango, and bouzouki, amongst others.
Tyler arranged and conducted the new film logo music for Universal Pictures and composed a theme for the 100-year anniversary of the studio, as well as composed the music for the Marvel Studios logo, which now plays before of all of their films. He has received three Emmy Award nominations, ten BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, and recently won 12 Goldspirit Awards, including Composer of the Year.
PMC2015 (http://pmamusic.com) will take place at Directors Guild of America (7920 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles). The full-day conference will offer techniques for advancing careers, overviews on the latest business models, and details on how to monetize music.