Brandon Campbell

{{Short description|American music composer}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Brandon Campbell

| nationality = American

| occupation = music composer for film, TV and video games

| years_active = 2010 - present

| known_for = music contributions to TV series like Game of Thrones and Person of Interest

}}

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.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-18 |title=Composer Brandon Campbell on Scoring Netflix's The Letter for the King, Hans Zimmer, & COVID-19 |url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/05/composer-brandon-campbell-on-scoring-netflixs-the-letter-for-the-king-hans-zimmer-covid-19/ |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=Motion Picture Association |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-09-22 |title=Ramin Djawadi and Brandon Campbell Bring Their Blockbuster Composing Talents to Amazon's New World |url=https://www.spin.com/2021/09/ramin-djawadi-brandon-campbell-amazon-new-world/ |website=SPIN}}

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.{{Cite web |date=2018-01-02 |title=Ramin Djawadi & Brandon Campbell to Score Sylvain White's 'Slender Man' |url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2018/01/02/ramin-djawadi-brandon-campbell-to-score-sylvain-whites-slender-man/ |website=Film Music Reporter}} 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.{{cite web|title=Pacific Rim: The Black Anime Soundtrack Coming March 5

|url=https://anitrendz.net/news/2021/03/01/pacific-rim-the-black-anime-soundtrack-coming-march-5/|publisher=Anime Trending|date=March 1, 2021|access-date=March 1, 2021}}

Campbell co-composed music for the Amazon Games video game New World{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Andy |date=2021-09-21 |title=The 'New World' soundtrack was created by 'Game Of Thrones' composers |url=https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/the-new-world-soundtrack-was-created-by-game-of-thrones-composers-3051050 |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=NME |language=en-GB}} and the Square Enix video game The Diofield Chronicle with Djawadi.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-21 |title=The DioField Chronicle Shares Video Previewing Soundtrack By Game Of Thrones Composers - Noisy Pixel |url=https://noisypixel.net/the-diofield-chronicle-preview-soundtrack-game-of-thrones/ |access-date=2024-04-30 |language=en-US}}

Campbell received a Daytime Emmy Award in 2021 for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Daytime Program for Netflix's The Letter for the King.

In 2022, he scored the Josh Duhamel starrer Blackout.