Brandon Campbell

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Brandon Campbell is an American music composer for film, TV and video games and is best known for his music contributions to TV series' like Game of Thrones and Person of Interest and movies such as The Thinning and The Great Wall . After graduating from the University of Rochester he interned at Hans Zimmer's studio, Remote Control Productions and later served as an assistant to Ramin Djawadi. Campbell ventured off on his own in with the film Where Love Found Me, and later that year wrote the music for the thriller The Thinning . [1] [2]

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As an additional composer Campbell has written music for TV shows, films and video games like Breakout Kings (2011–2012), Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012), The House of Magic (2013), Person of Interest (2011–2016), The Strain (2014–2017), Dracula Untold (2014), Warcraft (2016), Gears of War 4 (2016), Prison Break (2005–2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), The Ravine (2021) and Eternals (2021). In 2018, Campbell composed the score for the drama-comedy Funny Story . [3] He co-composed the score for the film Slender Man with Ramin Djawadi, created additional music for Gears 5 and co-composed the second episode of Apple TV+'s series Amazing Stories with Djawadi.

Campbell is also composing music for Netflix's The Letter for the King . He also scored music for Pacific Rim: The Black , the anime series based on Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising . [4]

Campbell co-composed music for the Amazon Games video game New World [2] [5] and the Square Enix video game The Diofield Chronicle with Djawadi. [6]

Campbell received an Daytime Emmy Award in 2021 for Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for NETFLIX’s The Letter for the King.

In 2022, he scored the Josh Duhamel starrer Blackout.

Credits

YearFilmNotes
2010Lunch Breaks
2011-2015 Game of Thrones TV Series, 50 episodes [2]
2011-2016 Person of Interest TV Series, 95 episodes
2013StorytellesTV Series, 6 episdoes
2013Unfinished BusinessShort
2014Haunting Ian
2015Person of InterestTV Series, soundtrack
2015I Hate Myselfie, I Hate Myselfie 2Composer
2016Where Love Found Me
2016It Gets Worse
2016 The Thinning
2016The Lottery
2017 Prison Break TV Series, 3 episodes
2017Fatal Crossing
2018 Funny Story
2018 Westworld TV Series, 5 episodes
2018 Slender Man
2018 The Thinning : New World Order
2019Politicial
2020 Amazing Stories TV Series, 1 episode
2020 The Letter For The King TV Series, 6 episodes [1]
2021 New World Video Game [2] [5]
2021 Pacific Rim : The Black TV Series, 14 episodes
2022Greatness CodeTV Series, 3 episodes
2022 The Diofield Chronicle Video Game
2022 Blackout
2023Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey

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