Tiannan Cai is an award-winning composer, music producer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, founder & music director of Movement Music Productions. His music in multiple capacities with many different music styles, from film scoring, classical, and avant-garde to pop, jazz, and Chinese traditional music. He is also very accomplished in music technology, both hardware, and software: an imperative in today's world.

 

In recent years, Tiannan has scored an impressive number of films, animations, and video games. He has conducted and recorded his music at Warner Brothers Eastwood Scoring Stage, The Village Studios, EastWest Studios, Capitol Studios, and Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles.

 

Tiannan’s film and animation credits include "Pokémon: Journey of Dreams", “One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes 2”; "Amnesia", which was Produced by Jackie Chan; “Mission Quandary”, which was nominated for the 39th Montreal World Film Festival; His score for the animation “Soul Land (DouLuo DaLu)”, the most viewed Chinese animation series (over 40 billion). Animation "Yao-Chinese Folktales" by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and Bilibili; His score for the movie "Love is Color Blind” wins 9 International Film Festival awards; He has worked with Director Mike Johnson (Nominated for the 77th Oscar for Best Animated Feature) for Chinese-American Co-producing animation “Ping-Pong Rabbit”; Animation "The LuoYang", which nominated 2022 Busan International Film Festival Best Asian Animation. Tiannan also composed the opening theme for Coloroom Pictures which produces the animated film “Ne Zha” (the top-grossing Chinese animated film in 2019).

 

Tiannan’s video game scores include the DreamWorks Animation game: “DreamWorks Most Wanted''; the Steam VR video game "Star Dust" nominated for the 2016 Golden Plume Award; the Steam adventure game: "SCP: Secret Files"; Tencent Games: “Dragon Nest 2”; NetEase Games: “Justice Online''; Perfect World Games: “Shadow of Nyog'', IGG Games: "Kingdoms Mobile''. His other works include LG Electronics Commercial; the Ceremony of the 2nd Silk Road International Film Festival, etc;

 

Tiannan’s scores are performed in concerts by Orchestras worldwide, such as Pacific Symphony, Dream Orchestra in Los Angeles, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, and Xi’an Symphony Orchestra in China. As a music director, Tiannan is producing and orchestrating the World of Warcraft Music Festival by Blizzard Entertainment, which premiered in June 2021, and toured many major cities in China.

 

Tiannan graduated from the University of Southern California with Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, and holds an MFA in Music Production from the Academy of Art University. Early in his career, Tiannan served as Orchestrator & Music Producer for film composer Heitor Pereira: “Despicable Me 3”, and “The Angry Birds Movie” at Remote Control Productions, which was founded by Hans Zimmer who is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most innovative musical talents. Tiannan is on the faculty of the Academy of Art University, teaching orchestration in the Music Production for Visual Media Department.