Bobby Tahouri is an American composer, musician, and record producer.

Bobby Tahouri
Born
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
OccupationComposer

Life and work

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Bobby Tahouri comes from a musical family, and began playing piano at the age of seven. He studied piano and composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and also at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his bachelor's degree in Music Composition. Upon graduation, Tahouri continued his studies with notable film composer Ira Newborn, who was an important mentor for Tahouri in honing his musical craft in film.

In 2008, another composer encouraged Tahouri in the next step of his career. Academy Award Winning composer Hans Zimmer invited Tahouri to be a part of Remote Control Productions, where he composed additional music and provided arrangements for many projects, including Paramount Pictures’ Iron Man,[1] Warner Bros. Clash of the Titans, and HBO’s Game of Thrones.[1] Tahouri has also provided additional music on many other projects, including the Emmy-Award-winning Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Into the West, DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures’ Disturbia, 20th Century Fox’s Hitman, and Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me 2,[1] working alongside composers Geoff Zanelli and Heitor Pereira.

Tahouri scored the comedy Zero Charisma (distributed by Nerdist Industries and Tribeca Film), winner of the Audience Award at 2013’s SXSW film festival. He composed the main theme to the documentary series The Haunting Of, and collaborated with producer Rodney Jerkins on the Nickelodeon teen musical Rags, providing the orchestral score for the musical.

In the video game world, Tahouri is best known for composing the scores to Rise of the Tomb Raider and Marvel's Avengers, both developed by Crystal Dynamics. Tahouri also worked with Evanescence in 2019, co-producing and providing synth programming for the song The Chain by Fleetwood Mac, which was used in the Gears 5 video game trailer release.

Discography

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Theatrical films

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Year Title Director Notes
2009 The Conspiracy Greg Marcks
Best Worst Movie Michael Paul Stephenson
Across the Hall Alex Merkin
High Society: A Pot Boiler Kristian Davies
2011 Husk Brett Simmons
Trophy Kids Josh Sugarman
2012 Besties Rebecca Perry Cutter
The American Scream Michael Stephenson
2013 Zero Charisma Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews
Dark Circles Paul Soter
The Monkey's Paw Brett Simmons
2017 Girlfriend's Day Michael Stephenson
Altitude Alex Merkin
Forever Faithful Angie Ruiz

Short films

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Year Title Director Notes
2006 Broken David Wendelman
2007 The Insect Circus Chloe Aftel
2012 I'm Here. Where R U? David Wendelman
2015 This Modern Man Is Beat Alex Merkin

Television

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Year Title Notes
2012–2013 The Girl's Guide to Depravity
2015–2020 Shimmer and Shine
2017 House of the Witch Directed by Alex Merkin
Television film

Video games

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Year Title Notes
2014 Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Composed with Jeff Broadbent, Steve Jablonsky and Troels Brun Folmann
2015 Rise of the Tomb Raider
2020 Marvel's Avengers

Music production

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Year Title Band Notes
2019 "The Chain" Evanescence Fleetwood Mac cover for Gears 5 video game

References

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  1. ^ a b c Makuch, Eddie (October 9, 2015). "Rise of the Tomb Raider's Music Written by Game of Thrones Composer". GameSpot. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
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