Brandon Campbell

American music composer

Brandon Campbell is an American music composer for film, TV and video games and is best known for his music contributions to TV series' like Game of Thrones and Person of Interest and movies such as The Thinning and The Great Wall. After graduating from the University of Rochester he interned at Hans Zimmer's studio, Remote Control Productions and later served as an assistant to Ramin Djawadi. Campbell ventured off on his own in with the film Where Love Found Me, and later that year wrote the music for the thriller The Thinning.^[1]^[2]

As an additional composer Campbell has written music for TV shows, films and video games like Breakout Kings (2011–2012), Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012), The House of Magic (2013), Person of Interest (2011–2016), The Strain (2014–2017), Dracula Untold (2014), Warcraft (2016), Gears of War 4 (2016), Prison Break (2005–2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), The Ravine (2021) and Eternals (2021). In 2018, Campbell composed the score for the drama-comedy Funny Story.^[3] He co-composed the score for the film Slender Man with Ramin Djawadi, created additional music for Gears 5 and co-composed the second episode of Apple TV+'s series Amazing Stories with Djawadi.

Campbell is also composing music for Netflix's The Letter for the King. He also scored music for Pacific Rim: The Black, the anime series based on Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising.^[4]

Campbell co-composed music for the Amazon Games video game New World^[2]^[5] and the Square Enix video game The Diofield Chronicle with Djawadi.^[6]

Campbell received an Daytime Emmy Award in 2021 for Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for NETFLIX’s The Letter for the King.

In 2022, he scored the Josh Duhamel starrer Blackout.

Credits

Year	Film	Notes
2011-2015	Game of Thrones	TV Series, 50 episodes^[2]
2011-2016	Person of Interest	TV Series, 95 episodes
2013	Storytelles	TV Series, 6 episdoes
2014	Haunting Ian
2016	Where Love Found Me
2016	It Gets Worse
2016	The Thinning
2016	The Lottery
2017	Prison Break	TV Series, 3 episodes
2017	Fatal Crossing
2018	Funny Story
2018	Westworld	TV Series, 5 episodes
2018	Slender Man
2018	The Thinning : New World Order
2019	Politicial
2020	Amazing Stories	TV Series, 1 episode
2020	The Letter For The King	TV Series, 6 episodes^[1]
2021	New World	Video Game^[2]^[5]
2021	Pacific Rim : The Black	TV Series, 14 episodes
2022	The Diofield Chronicle	Video Game
2022	Blackout
2023	Destination NBA : A G League Odyssey

References

^ ^a ^b "Composer Brandon Campbell on Scoring Netflix's The Letter for the King, Hans Zimmer, & COVID-19". Motion Picture Association. 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ramin Djawadi and Brandon Campbell Bring Their Blockbuster Composing Talents to Amazon's New World". SPIN. 2021-09-22.
^ "Ramin Djawadi & Brandon Campbell to Score Sylvain White's 'Slender Man'". Film Music Reporter. 2018-01-02.
^ "Pacific Rim: The Black Anime Soundtrack Coming March 5". Anime Trending. March 1, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Brown, Andy (2021-09-21). "The 'New World' soundtrack was created by 'Game Of Thrones' composers". NME. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
^ "The DioField Chronicle Shares Video Previewing Soundtrack By Game Of Thrones Composers - Noisy Pixel". 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2024-04-30.