Nominations include “Discovery of the Year" for Monster House at the 2006 World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium, "Best Music" at the 2007 Saturn Awards, "Best Horror Score" 2009 for Trick 'r Treat 2009 and "Best New Composer" 2006 for Monster House from the International Film Music Critics Association.
Pipes also works with the rock band The Airborne Toxic Event,[1] providing arrangements and orchestrations for symphony concerts across the U.S.
Pipes has been commissioned twice by the Dallas Chamber Symphony a to compose original scores for their silent film series.
In 2014, he wrote an original score for Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.
[2] [3] In 2017, he wrote an original score for the Buster Keaton's silent film The General, which premiered October 17, 2017.