Pınar Toprak

Pinar Toprak (; born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-American composer, conductor, and musician, who specializes in creating thematic film and television scores. She memorized the dialogue from the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve, and dubbed it to Turkish.

Toprak enrolled in the Istanbul State Conservatory, the oldest conservatory in Turkey. During her studies there, she focused on composition and multi-instrumentalism. She began as a violinist and later switched to guitar. Following her move to Los Angeles, she received a Master's in Classical Composition from the California State University, Northridge in 2002. She also trained in programming sample instruments.

Toprak's other prominent works include the films The Lost City, Slumberland, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie and Lonely Planet, and the television series Krypton, Stargirl, McMillions (for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Original Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special) and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. She is the first Turkish composer to be nominated for an Emmy. Her work on the 2018 film The Tides of Fate earned her the 2019 ASCAP Shirley Walker Award, and also, her third IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Film in 2019. The new theme was met with wide praise. a fireworks-based nighttime spectacular at EPCOT at Walt Disney World Resort that debuted in 2023.

Personal life In 2008 Toprak married Thanos Kazakos, a music composer and sound design major from Greece. They had met at Berklee, and had a son and a daughter. They divorced in 2013. |- 2018 The Angel| Ariel Vromen

Purl| Kristen Lester Short film Captain Marvel Anna BodenRyan Fleck Skyfire| Simon West 2020 It's Time| Frank Waldeck 2021 Us Again Zach Parrish Short film

The Lost City| Aaron NeeAdam Nee Slumberland| Francis Lawrence

Shotgun Wedding| Jason Moore Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie Cal Brunker Replaced Heitor Pereira Family Switch| McG 2024 Lonely Planet| Susannah Grant 2026 Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie Cal Brunker

Television Year Title Notes 2008 Loch Ness Terror Television film Ogre Ba'al 2009 Wyvern 2010 Mongolian Death Worm Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf 2015 Clan of the Cave Bear 2016 Falling Water 4 episodes 2018–19 Krypton 20 episodes 2020–22 Stargirl 39 episodes 2020 McMillions 6 episodes 2024–25 Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft with Gerrit Wunder16 episodes 2025 Bad Thoughts 6 episodes

Documentary works Video games Year Title Notes 2006 Ninety-Nine Nights with Takayuki Nakamura 2017 Fortnite Additional music 2023 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Other work Christina Aguilera: The Xperience Las Vegas Residency (2019) (residency intro) Skydance Media fanfare (2010–22) "Learning to Fly", single by Christina Aguilera (2023; producer) Prime Video Sports theme (2022–present) Luminous The Symphony of Us'', music from the EPCOT nighttime spectacular at Walt Disney World Resort (2023)

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