Pinar Toprak

Pinar Toprak (born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-American composer for film, television and video games. She is most well known for composing the score to the hit Marvel movie Captain Marvel (2019). She has won three International Film Music Critics Association Awards for The Lightkeepers (2009), The Wind Gods (2013), and The Tides of Fate (2018), as well as the fanfare of Skydance Media from 2010 to 2022 and contributed music for Fortnite. 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, before continuing on to Boston for a degree in film scoring from Berklee College of Music. She then moved to Los Angeles, earned a master's degree at California State University, Northridge in composition at age 22, and has quickly...