Pinar Toprak

Pinar Toprak
Born	Istanbul, Turkey
Genres	Film score
Occupation	Composer
Instruments	Violin piano guitar
Website	pinartoprak.com

Pinar Toprak (Pınar Toprak in Turkish) 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, the Pixar animated short Purl., and the HBO documentary series McMillions.

Discography

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2004	Hold The Rice	Alfonso Pineda Ulloa	Short film
	Headbreaker
2005	When All Else Fails	David Ellison
2006	Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil	James Dodson
2007	Daydreamer	Brahman Turner
	Sinner	Marc Benardout
	Fall Down Dead	Jon Keeyes
	In the Name of the Son	Harun Mehmedinović	Short film
	Say It in Russian	Jeff Celentano
2008	Ocean of Pearls	Sarab Singh Neelam	with Karsh Kale & Snatam Kaur
2009	The Crimson Mask	Elias Plagianos
	Breaking Point	Jeff Celentano
	The Lightkeepers	Daniel Adams
2011	Last Will	Brent Huff
	The River Murders	Rich Cowan
	Girls! Girls! Girls!	Shana Betz Beth Grant Tracie Laymon Jennifer Lynch Barbara Stepansky America Young	with Heather Schmidt
2012	Vamperifica	Bruce Ornstein
	How to Have a Happy Marriage	Jennifer Lynch
	Restos	Alfonso Pineda Ulloa	Short film
2013	The Wind Gods	Fritz Mitchell	Documentary film
2015	The Challenger	Kent Moran
	The Curse of Downers Grove	Derick Martini
	In Utero	Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal	Documentary film
2017	The Monster Project	Victor Mathieu	with Emir Işılay
	Justice League	Zack Snyder	Additional music Main score by Danny Elfman
2018	The Angel	Ariel Vromen
2019	Purl	Kristen Lester	Short film
	Captain Marvel	Anna Boden Ryan Fleck
	Skyfire	Simon West	†

Television

Year	Title	Notes
2008	Beyond Loch Ness	Television film
	Ogre
	Ba'al
2009	Wyvern
2010	Mongolian Death Worm
	Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf
2016	Falling Water	4 episodes
2018-2019	Krypton	20 episodes
2020-present	Stargirl
2020	McMillions	6 episodes

Video games

• Ninety-Nine Nights (2006)
• Fortnite (2017) (additional music)

Other work

• Christina Aguilera: The Xperience Las Vegas Residency (2019) (residency intro)

External links

• Official website
• Pinar Toprak at IMDb