Pinar Toprak (born 18 October 1980) is a Turkish-born American composer, conductor, and musician, who specializes in creating thematic scores.
She lived with her brother in Wisconsin where she completed a short ESL program before enrolling at Berklee.
[5][6][7] Following her move to Los Angeles, she received a Master's in Classical Composition from the California State University, Northridge in 2002.
[6] At Paramount, she attended scoring sessions[2] and worked for Hans Zimmer's production company, Media Ventures International (now Remote Control).
[6] She left Zimmer's company after a year to work as assistant to composer William Ross.
The same year, composer Danny Elfman hired Toprak to write additional scores for the 2017 DC superhero movie, Justice League (Dir.
She is the first woman to ever score a major superhero movie, and the first to compose for a film that made more than $1 billion.
[14][15][13] In 2008, Toprak married Thanos Kazakos, a music composer and sound design major from Greece.