Tyler Cook

Instrument: Tenor Saxophone Favorite Brass to the Future song(s): Theme from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Ghostbusters

Background: Tyler Cook, formerly of the one-off super group The Tyler Cook Orchestra ("Online Girlfriend," "Robot Woman"), is the primary composer and arranger for Brass to the Future, as well as its lone woodwind player. Tyler has twelve years of experience as a saxophonist and eleven as a composer, arranger, and bastardizer of classical musical. His musical influences range from Bach to Boston; Mozart to Meat Loaf; Richard Wagner to Jim Steinman; and on and on. Tyler also plays sax weekly at Elmwood Avenue Church of God in Columbia, South Carolina, continuing a long tradition of staying true to his gospel roots. Tyler has been a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) as a composer since December 21, 2009, after having his original holiday mash-up, "Christmas Crunch (Jingle Bells Funk)" performed at the Sumter Opera House.

Tyler has played with the USC Left Bank Big Band; the USC University Band; the USC Basketball Pep Band; the USC Marching Band; the Aiken Community Band (Aiken, South Carolina), the Elmwood Avenue Church of God Orchestra; the Woodlawn Christian Church Praise and Worship Band (Knoxville, Tennessee); The Tyler Cook Orchestra; electro-pop humor duo Blasphemy's Belt; and countless saxophone quartets, quintets, and sextets, including the long-lived Aiken High School group Casual Sax (also known as Fifth Sax).

Tyler is currently a member of Sumter, South Carolina-based pop-rock-jazz band Night Falcon. He also plays with up-and-coming supporting act White Girl Problems and Camden-based The Lovecrafts, with whom he recorded his pop-rock anthem "Gonna Make Love to Ke$ha (Tonight)." Outside of pop/rock, Tyler plays in the Sumter Community Concert Band and the Sumter Community Jazz Band.

Tyler has lost about 100 pounds, making him even more awesome.