About Tyler

Film & Game Composer | Independent Artist

 

Tyler is an award-winning composer for film, games and television. His music deepens visual storytelling’s extraordinary capacity to expand our realities and shape our self-understanding. As a sonic miner, Tyler extracts the most vital emotions from every scene and uncovers the unique richness in each story. Enticed by texture and rhythm, he continually finds new sounds to create layered, detailed musical landscapes.

 

In 2020, he was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Score in recognition of his work on the documentary film, The Last Ice. Tyler frequently collaborates with celebrated composer Pinar Toprak on projects such as The Lost City, Slumberland, Disney World’s EPCOT theme park, and co-composing the Netflix docuseries Our Living World.

Tyler has also written additional music for the hit Netflix series Outer Banks and Biohackers. Tyler worked with Oscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard on films including News of the World, Jungle Cruise, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life.

Tyler earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition with a minor in recording arts from Missouri State University, and an MFA degree in music composition for the screen at Columbia College Chicago. 

 
 

Independent Work

As an emerging independent artist under the name LIMINA, Tyler released his first E.P., Hidden Spaces, in fall 2020. Building a bridge between electronic and neoclassical music, LIMINA is a space where he can fully explore his creative intuition. Most recently, he recorded his upcoming full solo album, Coming Home, at AIR studios with members from the The London Philharmonic Orchestra. You can listen to Coming Home here.

 

Awards & Recognitions

  • Nominated for Best Score by Critics Choice Awards for his work on documentary film, The Last Ice.

  • “Best Score” awarded by FastNet Festival and by the Epic Animation Comic Games for his work on the animated short Corky 

  • Finalist at the New York Animation Film Awards for Best Original Music on the animated short Corky.

  • Winner of the Urbana Pops Orchestra’s Video Game Cinematics Competition Contest for his piece Escaping the Enemy 

  • “Best Score” at the Los Angeles Web Festival for his work on Epilogue: The Series 

  • Nomination for “Best Original Music” by the International Academy of Web Television for his work on Epilogue: The Series 

  • Bronze Telly Award for his work on Epilogue: The Series 

  • Semi-finalist placement in the International CINE Film Scoring Competition

  • Winner of the Young Composers Challenge for his symphony, The New Frontier

  • His wind ensemble piece, Flight of the Monarchs, was selected and premiered by the Missouri State University Wind Ensemble

  • His wind ensemble piece, Flight of the Monarchs, was selected and performed at the SCI Region VI Conference by Henderson State University

 

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