Biography
Pinar Toprak is a Turkish-American composer for film, television and video games. She has won two International Film Music Critics Association Awards for The Lightkeepers (2009) and The Wind Gods (2013). Toprak was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, where she began her classical musical education at the age of five. After studying composition and multiple instruments at the conservatory, she moved to Chicago to study jazz, then Boston. She joined the music production company Media Ventures International (now known as Remote Control), home of film composer Hans Zimmer. Toprak most recently scored Captain Marvel (2019), the Superman prequel series Krypton and the Pixar animated short, Purl.
Awards & recognition
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers · 2019
- International Film Music Critics Association Award — Best Original Score for a Documentary · 2019
- International Film Music Critics Association Award — Best Original Score for a Documentary · 2011
- International Film Music Critics Association Award — Best Original Score for a Comedy Film · 2010
Filmography27 titles
Our Living World
Us Again
Stargirl
Slumberland
McMillions
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
Captain Marvel
Purl
The Angel
The Lost City
Family Switch
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft
Skyfire
Shotgun Wedding
Lonely Planet
The Challenger
The River Murders
The Monster Project
Wyvern
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
Mongolian Death Worm
The Curse of Downers Grove
Beyond Loch Ness
Vamperifica
Ba'al
Fall Down Dead
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie