
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