Biography

With a love of organic instrumentation combined with modern technologies, classical training, and years of live performance, Tyler Traband is one of the exciting new breed of composers writing for visual media. A multi-instrumentalist, Film & TV composer, and singer/songwriter, Tyler has toured nationally, written commercials for top brands, and composed for riveting documentaries, thrillers and adventure films.

He has spent his entire life on stage and in the studio. His music is heard around the world each day. Credits include: Shark Week; Showtime Sports; The Young and the Restless; Our Cartoon President; the IMAX documentary Chasing the Ghost Particle; the PBS Documentaries Walkable USA, Holding Pattern, and the PBS Docu-series for the National Hellenic Museum including The Trial Of Pericles, The Trial Of Socrates, The Trial Of Megacles, The Trial Of Antigone, and The Parthenon Marbles; and An American Home:Frank Lloyd Wright's F. Harley Bradley House, streaming on Amazon Prime, soundtrack available on Lakeshore Records.

Tyler's journey began in Milwaukee. Born to a musical family, his grandmother was a pianist and his father a clarinetist and 'reed man.' Equally versed in classical music (at one time studying operatic tenor), jazz, and rock, he began playing keyboards and fronting bands while in high school, performing originals and covers. While attending college, Tyler performed in University of Wisconsin Chamber Singers, the elite A Cappella group, learned all the rudiments of music theory, studied jazz at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and moonlighted in original rock/soul/pop bands.

After college, Tyler toured extensively while establishing a career writing music for commercials. His ability to encapsulate emotion within 30 seconds led him to become one of the go-to composers for ad agencies in Midwest. He has scored more than 300 TV spots for top national brands including: Coca- Cola, Masterlock, Scheels, Simplicity, Kohler, Harley-Davidson, Oldsmobile, Citgo, Bon-Ton, and MTV.

Every scoring gig is an opportunity to work with new people and to create something amazing. As a 'band guy' Tyler has always understood the value of collaboration, as well as the benefits of surrounding himself with other great musicians. Trusted time and again with huge-budget gigs and crazy deadlines, Tyler is completely at home with the time pressures of scoring for TV, games and film and prides himself on being the most fun to work with. He currently lives in the mountains near Lake Arrowhead just outside of LA with all the bears and mountain lions.

Tyler is a member of The SCL, AIMP, New Film LA, The IDA (Internatiuonal Documentary Association) and a full voting member of The Recording Academy.

Current projects include Tyler's 9th Studio Album as an artist, featuring members of Conan O'Brien's Basic Cable Band, a ground breaking True Crime Podcast Series "13 Murders that Changed US History," continuing work as additional music composer for CBS Daytime Network TV and "Walkable USA," making it's way across the country on PBS Summer of 2025, a documentary about Urban Planning and returning populations to America's Down Town areas. Tyler also continues to add entire albums of his music to the Warner Bros/Discovery catalog. Currently he has created over 250 original cues for this amazing library in primarily the action/adventure and cinematic/hybrid/orchestral genres.
- IMDb mini biography by: The Krakower Group - we miss you Beth.

Was a professional level frisbee golfer at one time.