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Pinar Toprak
Pinar Toprak (born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-born American composer, conductor, and musician, who specializes in creating thematic scores.
Toprak was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. Her father was an accountant, who supported Toprak's interest in music and movies, particularly westerns and Superman. Toprak has said she was always drawn to superheroes and comic books growing up. She memorized the dialogue from the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve, and dubbed it to Turkish.
Toprak enrolled in the Istanbul State Conservatory, the oldest conservatory in Turkey. During her studies there, she focused on composition and multi-instrumentalism. She began as a violinist and later switched to guitar.
She finished high school at 16, and after her 17th birthday she moved to the United States. She lived with her brother in Wisconsin where she completed a short ESL program before enrolling at Berklee. During that time she found work as a jazz guitarist and pianist."
She received her Bachelor of Music in Film Scoring from Berklee in 2000 when she was 19 years old. Following her move to Los Angeles, she received a Master's in Classical Composition from the California State University, Northridge in 2002. It was at CSUN where she was recommended for an internship at Paramount Pictures at the age of 20.
At Paramount she attended scoring sessions and worked for Hans Zimmer's production company, Media Ventures International (now Remote Control). She also trained in programming sample instruments. She left Zimmer's company after a year to work as assistant to composer William Ross.
In 2006 she composed the score for the video game Ninety-Nine Nights, and then for Behind Enemy Lines 2. From that time onward, she worked on more than forty feature films and several video-game and television projects. She worked on the fanfare of Skydance Media from 2010 to 2022.
Among her work was the score for the romantic comedy The Lightkeepers (2009), which won the 2010 International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Award for Best Comedy Score. Toprak's score for The Lightkeepers made it to the 2011 Academy Award Shortlist for Best Original Score. She composed the music to the documentary The Wind Gods (2011) for which she received a second IFMCA award for Best Documentary Score in 2011. In 2017 she was hired by director Dean Devlin to compose the score for Geostorm but was laid off after production companies Warner Bros. and Skydance Media hired a new director for the movie's reshoots. The same year, composer Danny Elfman hired Toprak to write additional scores for the 2017 DC superhero film, Justice League (Dir. Zack Snyder).
Pinar Toprak
Pinar Toprak (born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-born American composer, conductor, and musician, who specializes in creating thematic scores.
Toprak was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. Her father was an accountant, who supported Toprak's interest in music and movies, particularly westerns and Superman. Toprak has said she was always drawn to superheroes and comic books growing up. She memorized the dialogue from the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve, and dubbed it to Turkish.
Toprak enrolled in the Istanbul State Conservatory, the oldest conservatory in Turkey. During her studies there, she focused on composition and multi-instrumentalism. She began as a violinist and later switched to guitar.
She finished high school at 16, and after her 17th birthday she moved to the United States. She lived with her brother in Wisconsin where she completed a short ESL program before enrolling at Berklee. During that time she found work as a jazz guitarist and pianist."
She received her Bachelor of Music in Film Scoring from Berklee in 2000 when she was 19 years old. Following her move to Los Angeles, she received a Master's in Classical Composition from the California State University, Northridge in 2002. It was at CSUN where she was recommended for an internship at Paramount Pictures at the age of 20.
At Paramount she attended scoring sessions and worked for Hans Zimmer's production company, Media Ventures International (now Remote Control). She also trained in programming sample instruments. She left Zimmer's company after a year to work as assistant to composer William Ross.
In 2006 she composed the score for the video game Ninety-Nine Nights, and then for Behind Enemy Lines 2. From that time onward, she worked on more than forty feature films and several video-game and television projects. She worked on the fanfare of Skydance Media from 2010 to 2022.
Among her work was the score for the romantic comedy The Lightkeepers (2009), which won the 2010 International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Award for Best Comedy Score. Toprak's score for The Lightkeepers made it to the 2011 Academy Award Shortlist for Best Original Score. She composed the music to the documentary The Wind Gods (2011) for which she received a second IFMCA award for Best Documentary Score in 2011. In 2017 she was hired by director Dean Devlin to compose the score for Geostorm but was laid off after production companies Warner Bros. and Skydance Media hired a new director for the movie's reshoots. The same year, composer Danny Elfman hired Toprak to write additional scores for the 2017 DC superhero film, Justice League (Dir. Zack Snyder).