Timothy Michael Wynn (born May 5, 1970) is an American

musical composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

for

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s, and

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s. His co-score for '' Warhawk'' was recognized as one of the best video game scores for 2007 by

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and the

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Biography

Wynn began his music training as a founding member of the prestigious Orange County High School of the Performing Arts in 1988. From there he was accepted into the

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at the

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, where he studied under

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and

Jerry Goldsmith Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for five films in the ''Star Trek'' franchise and three in the Rambo (franchise) ...

. Wynn started his professional career writing the score for ''Last Chance''. While working on the film, he met aspiring music supervisor Alex Patsavas. The two would continue working on the films, including ''The Prophet'' and ''

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''. In 2000, Wynn worked on a documentary for

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, to be used for the opening of the

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in Washington, DC. After the documentary, he went on to score other documentaries including ''D-Day'', ''Moments of Truth'', and ''Filmscapes''. In 2002, Wynn scored the ABC television series ''The Chair''. He also composed music for the ABC television series Thieves and Joel Silver's The Strip. In 2003, he was tapped to score the feature film, '' Descendant''. His next project was the acclaimed Warner Brothers documentary, ''James Dean: Forever Young'', narrated by

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. He then switched gears and scored the comedy ''Partners'', in 2005. In 2007, Wynn wrote the music for the international television series '' ODYSSEY: Driving Around the World'' and the American television series ''

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''. In 2009, he worked on the ABC television series '' The Deep End''. Wynn began writing music for video games in 2005, starting with ''

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''. In 2007, he teamed up with longtime partner

Christopher Lennertz Christopher Joseph Lennertz (born January 2, 1972) is an American composer, songwriter, and conductor of film, television, and video game scores. His musical scores appeared in ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'', '' Hop'', '' Think Like a Man'', and '' ...

to write the score for '' Warhawk'', which was nominated for Score of the Year by the International Film Music Critics and was chosen one of the best scores of 2007 by

. Wynn's next project was scoring ''

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'' which later received a Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) award for Best Arrangement of a Non-Original Score. He then went on to produce tracks for ''

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''. In 2008, he scored the award-winning franchise '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3''. In 2009, he scored '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising'' and '' Red Faction Guerrilla''). In 2010, Wynn composed the score for '' Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight''. He was also as part of a collaboration between several of the biggest names of Hollywood composers entitled, "A Symphony of Hope", which benefited victims of the

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Credits

Films

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2000s

2010s

Television

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'' (1999) *''

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'' (2001) *'' The Chair'' (2002) *''

'' (2005–present) *'' The Deep End'' (2010) *'' Tokyo Control'' (2011) *'' Lucky Seven'' (2012) *''Wolfpack of Reseda (TV series)'' (2012) *''Tokyo Airport Air Traffic Services Department (TV Mini-Series)'' (2012) *''

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'' (2015) *''

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'' (2016–2018)

Video games

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'' (2005) *''

'' (2007) (Additional music with

, score composed by

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and James Dooley) *'' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3'' (2008) *'' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising'' (2009) *'' Red Faction Guerrilla'' (2009) *'' Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight'' (2010) *''

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'' (2011) *''

The Darkness II ''The Darkness II'' is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes and published by 2K Games. The game is the sequel to ''The Darkness (video game), The Darkness'' (2007) and based on the The Darkness (comics), comic boo ...

'' (2012) *''

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'' (2013) (with

) *'' Total War Battles: Kingdom'' (2015) *'' Total War: Atilla'' (2015) *''

XCOM 2 ''XCOM 2'' is a 2016 turn-based tactics video game developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the sequel to 2012's reboot of the series, '' XCOM: Enemy Unknown''; it takes place 20 years after the events of ''Enemy Unknown''. ...

'' (2016) *'' Total War: Warhammer'' (2016) *'' XCOM 2: War of the Chosen'' (2017) *'' Total War: Warhammer II'' (2017) *'' Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia'' (2018) *'' Total War: Three Kingdoms'' (2019) *'' Total War Saga: Troy'' (2020) *''

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'' (2022)

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