Tim Wynn

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Tim Wynn
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Wynn conducting the Golden State Pops Orchestra, 2009.
Background information
Birth nameTimothy Michael Wynn
Occupation(s)Composer for film, Television, and Games
Years active1994-present
Website http://www.timwynn.net/

Timothy Michael Wynn (born May 5, 1970) is an American musical composer for films, television shows, and video games. His co-score for Warhawk was recognized as one of the best video game scores for 2007 by IGN and the International Film Music Critics Association.

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Education

Wynn began his music training as a founding member of the prestigious Orange County High School of the Performing Arts in 1988. From there he was accepted into the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he studied under Elmer Bernstein, Christopher Young, Buddy Baker and Jerry Goldsmith.

Career

Wynn started his professional career writing the score for Last Chance. While working on the film, he met aspiring music supervisor Alex Patsavas. The two would continue working on the films, including The Prophet and Recoil . In 2000, Wynn worked on a documentary for Steven Spielberg, to be used for the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. After the documentary, he went on to score other documentaries including D-Day, Moments of Truth, and Filmscapes.

In 2002, Wynn scored the ABC television series The Chair. He also composed music for the ABC television series Thieves and Joel Silver's The Strip. In 2003, he was tapped to score the feature film, Descendant . His next project was the acclaimed Warner Brothers documentary, James Dean: Forever Young, narrated by Martin Sheen. He then switched gears and scored the comedy Partners, in 2005. In 2007, Wynn wrote the music for the international television series ODYSSEY: Driving Around the World and the American television series Supernatural . In 2009, he worked on the ABC television series The Deep End .

Wynn began writing music for video games in 2005, starting with The Punisher . In 2007, he teamed up with longtime partner Christopher Lennertz to write the score for Warhawk , which was nominated for Score of the Year by the International Film Music Critics and was chosen one of the best scores of 2007 by IGN. Wynn's next project was scoring The Simpsons Game which later received a Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) award for Best Arrangement of a Non-Original Score. He then went on to produce tracks for Gun . In 2008, he scored the award-winning franchise Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 . In 2009, he scored Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising and Red Faction Guerrilla ). In 2010, Wynn composed the score for Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight .

He was also as part of a collaboration between several of the biggest names of Hollywood composers entitled, "A Symphony of Hope", which benefited victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [1]

Credits

Film

1990s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
1995Terminal VirusDan Golden Concorde-New Horizons Television film
1997Macon County JailVictoria MusprattConcorde-New Horizons
1998 Recoil Art Camacho
1999The Prophet Fred Olen Ray Concorde-New Horizons

2000s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2000StalkersJesse WeathingtonShort film
2001Moments of Truth with Stephen AmborseChris HartyTelevision film
2002Time Machine: Lindbergh Flies AgainChris HartyTelevision film
Manual Labor Jeff Wadlow Short film
2003 Descendant Kermit Christman
Del Tenney
York Entertainment
2004FilmScapes: A Filmmaker's Journey to Extraordinary Places Louis Schwartzberg Television film
Worth Killing ForJesse WeatahingtonDirect-to-video film
2005James Dean:Forever YoungMichael J. Sheridan Warner Bros. Documentary film
Partner(s)Dave Diamond Lions Gate Films
2006Ice Louis Schwartzberg Blacklight FilmsVideo short
Grave Spirits Louis Schwartzberg Disney/Blacklight FilmsVideo short
Jet Stream Louis Schwartzberg Disney/Blacklight FilmsDocumentary short
Chasing the Light Louis Schwartzberg Blacklight FilmsTelevision film
2007Reflections of Venice Louis Schwartzberg Disney/Blacklight FilmsDocumentary short

2010s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2010 To Save a Life Brian Baugh Samuel Goldwyn Films
2012LiberatorAaron PopeCoverage InkShort film
McKenna Shoots for the Stars Vince Marcello Universal Home Video
2013 The Starving Games Jason Friedberg
Aaron Seltzer
Battle of the Year Benson Lee Screen Gems Additional Music
2014MK Reloaded
2015 Superfast! Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer The Safran Company

2020s

YearTitleDirector(s)Studio(s)Notes
2025 Final Destination Bloodlines Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein New Line Cinema

Television

Video games

References

  1. A Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project - Various Artists | Credits | AllMusic , retrieved 2021-04-24

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