16 Facts About Pinar Toprak

Pinar Toprak's father was an accountant who supported Toprak's interest in music and movies, particularly westerns and Superman.

Pinar Toprak memorized the dialogue from the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve, and dubbed it to Turkish.

Pinar Toprak enrolled in the Istanbul State Conservatory, the oldest conservatory in Turkey.

Pinar Toprak began as a violinist and later switched to guitar.

Pinar Toprak finished high school at 16, and, after her 17th birthday, moved to the United States.

Pinar Toprak lived with her brother in Wisconsin where she completed a short ESL program before enrolling at Berklee.

Pinar Toprak received her Bachelor of Music in Film Scoring from Berklee in 2000 when she was 19 years old.

Pinar Toprak left Zimmer's company after a year to work as assistant to composer William Ross.

Pinar Toprak worked on the fanfare of Skydance Media from 2010 to 2022.

Pinar Toprak composed the music to the documentary The Wind Gods for which she received a second IFMCA award for Best Documentary Score in 2011.

Pinar Toprak auditioned and pitched a main theme for the film Captain Marvel, which became a hit.

Pinar Toprak 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.

Pinar Toprak is the first Turkish composer to be nominated for an Emmy.

In 2022, Amazon picked Pinar Toprak to compose and conduct a new theme for its Thursday Night Football telecasts, marking the first time a woman composer wrote an original theme for the National Football League.

Pinar Toprak recorded it at the Ocean Way studio in Nashville with an 70-piece orchestra.

In 2008, Pinar Toprak married Thanos Kazakos, a music composer and sound design major from Greece.