Go behinds the scenes of Season Two of ABC’s “Revenge” with composer iZLER. Soundtrack Album available on August 20th from ABC.
About iZLER
iZLER is a Czech born, English raised composer and multi-instrumentalist. iZLER is currently scoring the hit ABC series Revenge, starring Madeleine Stowe, Emily Van Camp and Gabriel Mann. Mike Kelley is creator/executive producer of the show in which Phillip Noyce is a consulting producer as well as director of the pilot and second episode. For Revenge, which is very music driven, iZLER uses a live orchestra that he conducts for each episode, whilst most of the non orchestral instruments heard on the show are played by iZLER himself.
Selected in 2008 to be one of six up-and-coming composers invited to the Sundance Film Composer’s Lab in Utah, iZLER’S ongoing relationship with the Sundance community includes scoring the Sundance backed documentary Whatever It Takes, 2011 festival selection On The Ice and Jonathan van Tulleken’s BAFTA nominated thriller Off Season. A collection of his works were performed live at the opening night of the 2010 festival. He is also the composer of the cult/film festival favorite Humboldt County.
iZLER has written songs for numerous films and TV shows including Shameless, ER, My Best Friend’s Girl, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, This Revolution, and Thief. His song “Superblind” appears on Robbie Williams’ multi-platinum album Reality Killed the Video Star, which was produced by Trevor Horn and based on iZLER’s original production and orchestral arrangement.
In 2009, iZLER was selected for the BMI conducting fellowship under the tutelage of Lucas Richman and has also studied conducting for film with Eimear Noone at UCLA.
iZLER started his career as a touring musician and has toured, recorded and written with artists, producers and composers as diverse as Robbie Williams, Ryan Adams, Marco Beltrami, Dave Stewart, Imogen Heap, Jesse Malin, Kim Caldwell, Kylie Minogue, Brian May, Holly Johnson, as well as many others.
iZLER recently scored Robbie Pickering’s SXSW Film Festival Best Film winner Natural Selection starring Rachael Harris for which he also won the award for Best Film Score. He has scored multiple recent episodes of Showtime’s hit series Shameless. In addition, iZLER composed the music for the Inuit themed thriller On the Ice, which debuted at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won the Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. iZLER also wrote the music for The Hammer, a true story based on the inspiring life of deaf UFC fighter Matt Hamill, which has garnered overwhelming critical acclaim and numerous awards including the prestigious Breakthrough Film Award at the 2010 AFI Film Festival.
