Steve Jablonsky

Steve Jablonsky
Jablonsky at the premiere of Ender's Game in 2013.
Background information
Born	October 9, 1970
Genres	Film score, video game score, Epic music, post-rock, alternative rock, electronic, classical
Occupation(s)	Film composer, video game composer
Instruments	Piano, guitar, percussion
Years active	1997–present
Associated acts	Remote Control Productions, Hans Zimmer, Trevor Rabin, Harry Gregson-Williams, Trevor Morris, Linkin Park, Explosions in the Sky, Imagine Dragons

Steve Jablonsky (born October 9, 1970) is an American composer for film, television and video games, best known for his musical scores in the Transformers film series.^[1] Some of his frequent collaboration partners include film directors Michael Bay and Peter Berg, and fellow composer Hans Zimmer.

Early life

Jablonsky went to University of California, Berkeley for college. He studied computer science at the beginning, but switched to music composition a year later.^[2] After graduation, he became an intern at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. During that time, Jablonsky met Harry Gregson-Williams, a fellow composer of Zimmer, and started working as his assistant. Later he became more engaged with Zimmer and started composing for renowned works like Desperate Housewives and the Transformers film series.^[3]

Career

Jablonsky has composed the soundtracks to the films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Steamboy (2004), The Island (2005), Transformers (2007), D-War (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Battleship (2012), Ender's Game (2013) (replacing renowned film composer James Horner), and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). He was also a contributor on Team America: World Police (2004) among many others. In addition, he helped compose some of the music to the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and composed the theme music for BBC's Seven Wonders of the Industrial World in 2003. He also has written music for the television show Desperate Housewives (2004 - 2012) since the fourth episode. His track "Trailblazing" served as the opening theme for WrestleMania X8 and WrestleMania XIX, as well at the soundtrack to the TNA Hall of Fame induction of Sting.

Jablonsky also wrote the music for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, taking the place of the former Command & Conquer music composer Frank Klepacki, who was unable to write the game's score due to his involvement with Universe at War: Earth Assault.

Jablonsky has worked for Harry Gregson-Williams at Media Ventures, the music production company which was conceived and founded by Jay Rifkin and Hans Zimmer, for seven years. His most recent projects include the scores for the South Korean film D-War, Gears of War 3 for the Xbox 360 gaming console, and music for The Sims 3.

Currently, Jablonsky is employed at Zimmer's studio, Remote Control Productions, having been mentored by the company's members Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith, as well as former members Harry Gregson-Williams and Klaus Badelt.

In February 2015, Jablonsky was hired to compose the score for the film The Last Witch Hunter.^[4] He also composed the soundtrack for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the 2016 Peter Berg film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Additional Music	Studio / Developer	Notes
1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Bille August	Nick Glennie-Smith Steve Jablonsky Hans Zimmer	Fox Searchlight Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and Hans Zimmer
	Deceiver	Jonas Pate Josh Pate	N/A	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
1998	Border to Border	Thomas Whelan	N/A	Stage 15 Productions	N/A
	Armageddon	Michael Bay	Harry Gregson-Williams Steve Jablonsky Will Kaplan John Van Tongeren	Touchstone Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Trevor Rabin
	Antz	Eric Darnell Tim Johnson	Gavin Greenaway Steve Jablonsky Geoff Zanelli	DreamWorks Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell
1999	Light It Up	Craig Bolotin	P.J. Hanke Steve Jablonsky	20th Century Fox	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
2000	The Tigger Movie	Jun Falkenstein	Klaus Badelt Steve Jablonsky	Walt Disney Pictures
	The Magic of Marciano	Tony Barbieri	N/A	Cape Atlantic Productions
	Chicken Run	Peter Lord Nick Park	James McKee Smith Geoff Zanelli Gavin Greenaway Steve Jablonsky	DreamWorks Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell
2001	Pearl Harbor	Michael Bay	Klaus Badelt Steve Jablonsky James S. Levine Fiachra Trench Geoff Zanelli Martin Tillman Christopher Ward	Touchstone Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Hans Zimmer
2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	Kelly Asbury Lorna Cook	Steve Jablonsky Mel Wesson Gavin Greenaway	DreamWorks Pictures
2003	Tears of the Sun	Antoine Fuqua	James Dooley Steve Jablonsky Bruce Fowler Martin Tillman	Columbia Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Gore Verbinski	Ramin Djawadi James Dooley Nick Glennie-Smith Steve Jablonsky James McKee Smith Blake Neely Geoff Zanelli Trevor Morris	Walt Disney Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer
	Bad Boys II	Michael Bay	Toby Chu Tony Dofat Dr. Dre Steve Jablonsky Paul Linford Trevor Morris	Columbia Pictures	Additional score only Score composed by Trevor Rabin
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	Marcus Nispel	Jay Flood	New Line Cinema	N/A
2004	Steamboy	Katsuhiro Otomo	N/A	Sony Pictures Entertainment	N/A
	Team America: World Police	Trey Parker	Stephen Barton Toby Chu Jeff Faustman Damien Kaiser James McKee Smith Heitor Pereira Steve Jablonsky	Paramount Pictures	Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
2005	The Amityville Horror	Andrew Douglas	James Dooley Clay Duncan Jay Flood	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	N/A
	The Island	Michael Bay	Ramin Djawadi Clay Duncan Trevor Morris Blake Neely	Warner Bros. Pictures	N/A
2006	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	Jonathan Liebesman	Jay Flood	New Line Cinema	N/A
2007	The Hitcher	Dave Meyers	Clay Duncan Jay Flood Joel J. Richard Pieter A. Schlosser	Rogue Pictures	Incidental music by Holeg Spies
	Transformers	Michael Bay	Lorne Balfe Clay Duncan	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures	N/A
	D-War	Shim Hyung-rae	Jay Flood	Freestyle Releasing	N/A
2009	Friday the 13th	Marcus Nispel	Clay Duncan Jay Flood Pieter A. Schlosser Jed Smith	New Line Cinema Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Michael Bay	Ryeland Allison Lorne Balfe Clay Duncan Jay Flood Tom Gire Linkin Park Matthew Margeson William J. Parker John Sponsler Hans Zimmer	Paramount Pictures DreamWorks Pictures	N/A
2010	A Nightmare on Elm Street	Samuel Bayer	Jay Flood	New Line Cinema	N/A
2011	Your Highness	David Gordon Green	N/A	Universal Pictures	N/A
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Michael Bay	Andrew Kawczynski Jacob Shea	Paramount Pictures	N/A
2012	Battleship	Peter Berg	Thom Russo Jacob Shea	Universal Pictures	N/A
2013	Gangster Squad	Ruben Fleischer	N/A	Warner Bros. Pictures	N/A
	Pain & Gain	Michael Bay	Clay Duncan	Paramount Pictures	N/A
	Ender's Game	Gavin Hood	Jacob Shea	Summit Entertainment	N/A
	Lone Survivor	Peter Berg	Clay Duncan Jacob Shea	Universal Pictures	Composed with Explosions in the Sky
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Michael Bay	Imagine Dragons Dave Fleming Jacob Shea Joseph Trapanese Michael Yezerski Hans Zimmer	Paramount Pictures	N/A
2015	The Last Witch Hunter	Breck Eisner	Gary Dworetsky Jay Flood	Lionsgate Films	N/A
2016	Keanu	Peter Atencio	Elgin Thrower Jr.	Warner Bros. Pictures	Composed with Nathan Whitehead
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Dave Green	Gary Dworetsty David Fleming Jay Flood Corey Jackson	Paramount Pictures Nickelodeon Movies	N/A
	Deepwater Horizon	Peter Berg	N/A	Summit Entertainment	N/A
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Michael Bay	N/A	Paramount Pictures	N/A

Television

Year	Title[5]	TV Channel	Notes
1999	Swing Vote		Television movie Additional music only Score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
2002	AFP: American Fighter Pilot	CBS
	Live from Baghdad	HBO
	National Geographic Explorer	National Geographic Channel	Episode: Lost Subs: Disaster at Sea
2003	Seven Wonders of the Industrial World	BBC	7 episodes
	Threat Matrix	ABC	3 episodes
2004—2012	Desperate Housewives		157 episodes
2005	The Contender	NBC
	Threshold	CBS
2006	Him and Us		Television film
2009	WWII in HD	History	Only composed "Trailblazing"
2011	Vietnam in HD
2013	The List		Television film
	Occult	A&E
2014	The Last Ship	TNT	Season 1
2015	You, Me and the Apocalypse	NBC	10 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Awards/Nominations	Notes
2001	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty	E3 Best Original Score	Additional music only Music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and Norihiko Hibino
2007	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars		Composed with Trevor Morris
	Transformers: The Game
2008	Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath		Composed with Trevor Morris Expansion pack
	Gears of War 2
2009	The Sims 3
	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
2010	Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands		Promo music on bonus DVD
	Transformers: War for Cybertron
2011	Gears of War 3
2013	Gears of War: Judgment

References

1. "The New York Times". The New York Times.
2. "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Michael Bay's 'Transformers' Composer Steve Jablonsky Talks Making Music For Movies, TV, Video Games And More!". Mstarz. 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
3. Newman, Melinda (2014-06-26). "Composer Steve Jablonsky on Transformers: Age of Extinction: This was the craziest film of all". Hitfix.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
4. "Steve Jablonsky to Score 'The Last Witch Hunter'.". filmmusicreporter.com. February 12, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
5. "Steve Jablonsky". Hans-Zimmer.com. Retrieved 2016-01-25.

External links

• Steve Jablonsky at the Internet Movie Database
• Steve Jablonsky at SoundtrackNet
• Steve Jablonsky on MySpace.com
• Interview with Steve Jablonsky, SoundtrackNet
• The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.