Sarah Schachner is an American composer and musician who has worked on the scores of films, television series and video 馃拫 games.
She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media for her 馃拫 work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.
Biography [ edit ]
Schachner grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia.[2] When she 馃拫 was five, she first started playing piano and then started playing the violin.[3] She kept learning other instruments, such as 馃拫 viola and cello, and played with both family and in an orchestra, as well as a jazz band.[3]
Schachner went to 馃拫 the Berklee College of Music and then moved to Los Angeles.[3] She began to work with composer Brian Tyler, who 馃拫 worked in film and then started writing video game music.[3] Tyler first brought Schachner in to work on Call of 馃拫 Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[3] Schachner said, "I started doing music on the games for him and I realized how much 馃拫 I loved working on games."[3] Since then Schachner has worked on more Call of Duty games such as Infinite Warfare 馃拫 and also worked with Ubisoft on the Far Cry and Assassin's Creed series.[4][5][6] Schachner began to incorporate synthesizers with her 馃拫 work on string instruments.[7]
