Biography
Hi, I’m Tyler and I hate introductions. Here’s a story instead.
WHEN I was four years old, my parents bought me a toy trumpet. From the first second I held it, I was enamored. I took it to preschool, to church, to the bathroom — everywhere I went. I’d even share my food with it and tuck it under the covers with me in bed. And of course, I’d play anything and everything that I managed to learn by ear. That toy trumpet and I were inseparable. I Loved it like the brother I never had.
My dad stepped on my toy trumpet one day, and the mouthpiece shattered into at least seven pieces. I remember wailing the primal scream of a wounded, lost-limbed animal draped over some kind of hunter’s trap. I grieved the loss of my beloved trumpet until my parents replaced it with a toy guitar, then a toy piano and toy drums, and eventually a real, shiny metal trumpet.
As I aged, I developed new interests, new hobbies, new courses of study, but I could never put aside music. Even when I tried. In my adolescence, my love for math and literature could never depose my obsessive trumpet practice.
In college, I studied film and theatre, and eventually graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in English Literature from Arizona State University, but as much time as I spent studying, I spent twice that writing choral arrangements for my a capella group and sharing them in social circles online.
The older I got and the farther I tried to distance myself from music, the more I felt like that little boy behaving as though he’d lost a vital organ when he was deprived of music.
IN 2019, I moved to Los Angeles and began composing and orchestrating music in earnest. In LA, I’ve performed as a bassist, keyboardist and vocalist in Jazz ensembles, produced and performed library music and entered study in the Film Scoring program at the University of California in Los Angeles, where I study music composition for film, television, video games and other media.