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Michael David Nielsen (born April 1, 1974) is an American musician and composer for movie trailers, video games and television; his works range from electronical to orchestral.

Career
Nielsen studied history at UCLA and graduated in 1997. As a musician, he is self-taught, he played rock guitar and in 2000 formed the Triangle Production team that specialized in producing songs for movie soundtracks.

Nielsen produced for Brian Tyler, The Pussycat Dolls, Kenny Loggins, The Bahamen, and Lenny Kravitz. In 2002, Nielsen worked with James Brown on one of his last single releases "Killing is Out, School is In".

Nielsen's soundtracks for the movie Scooby Doo (2002) reached #4 on Billboards charts Top Soundtracks. Other films that feature his music include Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002), Blue Crush (2002), American Pie: American Wedding (2003), Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), The Island (2005), Eastern Promises (2007),  Grindhouse (2007), Sydney White (2007), Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008), and Another Cinderella Story (2008) for which Nielsen co-wrote and produced all of the original songs, including Selena Gomez's "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" that became Gomez's first song to chart on Billboards Hot 100. and was also released on Kidz Bop 15 CD. In the same year, Michael Nielsen was one of the composers for the animated television show Wolverine and the X-Men.

In 2004, Nielsen founded the production company Ninja Tracks, the company responsible for producing the Full Tilt trailer music libraryref>http://trailermusicnews.com/interview/video-interview-michael-nielsen-kaveh-cohen. Nielsen's compositions on Full Tilt have been used in trailers for many different films, such as The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Avatar (2009), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Clash of the Titans (2010), Inception (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Robin Hood (2010) and Toy Story 3 (2010). In 2010, Nielsen and his Ninja Tracks partner Kaveh Cohen scored the Xbox 360 video game, Splinter Cell Conviction <.

Compositions for Films

 * American Pie: American Wedding
 * Another Cinderella Story
 * Blue Crush
 * Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
 * Eastern Promises
 * Get Rich or Die Tryin'
 * Grindhouse
 * Scooby Doo
 * Snow 2: Brain Freeze
 * Stuck in the Suburbs
 * Sydney White
 * The Island
 * Wolverine and the X-Men

Compositions for Film Trailers

 * 300
 * A Nightmare on Elm Street
 * Avatar
 * Beowulf
 * Borat
 * Clash of the Titans
 * Eragon
 * Hitman
 * Inception
 * Live Free or Die Hard
 * No Country for Old Men
 * Poseidon
 * Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
 * Robin Hood
 * Saw IV
 * Superbad
 * Superman Returns
 * The Bourne Supremacy
 * The Bourne Ultimatum
 * The Island
 * Toy Story 3
 * Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
 * The Twilight Saga: New Moon
 * V for Vendetta
 * X-Men 2
 * X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Compositions for Game Trailers

 * Age of Empires 3
 * Black
 * Splinter Cell: Double Agent
 * Spy Hunter 3
 * The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian

Full Tilt Discography

 * Full Tilt I, II, & III
 * Full Tilt: Black
 * Full Tilt: Rising
 * Full Tilt: Comedy Tools
 * Trailer Tools I, II & III

Interviews

 * Interview at Mixonline, 2008
 * Interview with Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen at Tracksounds, 2008
 * Interview with Michael Nielsen and Kaveh Cohen at Trailermusicnews, 2010

External References

 * Michael Nielsen's official website
 * Michael Nielsen's official MySpace
 * Michael Nielsen's IMDb entry