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