Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Emir Isilay now resides in Los Angeles, where he works as a composer, pianist, producer, arranger and engineer. He has composed music for many movies and TV shows appearing on SyFy, WB, Lifetime, Hallmark, Starz, and others including Until We Meet Again featuring Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) and Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Country Crush, Earthfall and Random Encounters as well as the 9-episode digital series, Dead Women Walking produced by Blackpills and directed by Cannes Filmmaking alumnus Hagar Ben-Asher. The project was featured at the renowned Tribeca Film Festival in April 2018.Emir has composed additional music for Epic Games’ worldwide phenomenon videogame Fortnite, Paramount Pictures’ The Lost City, SyFy Channel Original TV Series Krypton, Netflix Original The Angel and did score programming for the USA Network TV series Falling Water. He worked on Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel and the Pixar short Purl as an arranger and also played the keyboards on the recent Walt Disney Animation short Us Again.His score for Saawan won the Best Soundtrack Award at the Salento International Film Festival in 2017 as well as his scores for Osprey and Saawan were nominated for Best Score at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2017. Additionally, his score for The Crimson Mask was nominated for Best Original Score at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival.Emir also placed original songs in Hangover Part II (Warner Bros.), Kung Fu Panda: Holiday Special (Dreamworks), Song One, TV series Velvet and True Justice. Some of his recent commercials for which he has written music include Toyota, Pfizer, Lapband, Arizona Tourism, Brandman University, HTC and 4D By Daniella.Early in his career, Emir worked with the Media Ventures team; home of the legendary film composer Hans Zimmer. There he worked and performed extensively with renowned composer and guitarist Heitor Pereira on Curious George (Universal), Ask The Dust (Paramount), Haven (Yari Film Group), Two Weeks (MGM) and Dirty Dancing 2 Havana Nights (Miramax). Emir has also worked as a pianist, arranger, orchestrator, engineer, and also wrote additional music with film and TV composer Philip Giffin on a wide variety of projects, including FOX’s K-Ville, NBC’s Boomtown, ABC’s Eyes and the MGM feature Soul Plane.