Education
He studied computer science at the beginning, but switched to music composition a year later.
He studied computer science at the beginning, but switched to music composition a year later.
Jablonsky went to University of California, Berkeley for college. After graduation, he became an intern at Hans Zimmer"s Remote Control Productions. During that time, Jablonsky met Harry Gregson-Williams, a fellow composer of Zimmer, and started working as his assistant.
Later he became more engaged with Zimmer and started composing for renowned works like Desperate Housewives and the Transformers film series.
Jablonsky has composed the soundtracks to the films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Steamboy (2004), The Island (2005), Transformers (2007), Doctorate-War (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Battleship (2012), Ender"s Game (2013) (replacing renowned film composer James Horner), and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). He was also a contributor on Team America: World Police (2004) among many others
In addition, he helped compose some of the music to the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and composed the theme music for British Broadcasting Corporation"s Seven Wonders of the Industrial World in 2003. He also has written music for the television show Desperate Housewives (2004 - 2012) since the fourth episode.
His track "Trailblazing" served as the opening theme for WrestleMania X8 and WrestleMania XIX, as well at the soundtrack to the TNA Hall of Fame induction of Sting.
Jablonsky also wrote the music for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, taking the place of the former Command & Conquer music composer Frank Klepacki, who was unable to write the game"s score due to his involvement with Universe at War: Earth Assault. Jablonsky has worked for Harry Gregson-Williams at Media Ventures, the music production company which was conceived and founded by Jay Rifkin and Hans Zimmer, for seven years. His most recent projects include the scores for the South Korean film Doctorate-War, Gears of War 3 for the Xbox 360 gaming console, and music for The Sims 3.
Currently, Jablonsky is employed at Zimmer"s studio, Remote Control Productions, having been mentored by the companies members Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith, as well as former members Harry Gregson-Williams and Klaus Badelt.
In February 2015, Jablonsky was hired to compose the score for the film The Last Witch Hunter. He is also set to compose the soundtrack for the upcoming 2016 Peter Berg film Deepwater Horizon starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell.
