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]


In 2016, Ted Cruz's presidential campaign used one of Schachner's songs, "Lens", without permission.^[8][9] As the composer, she and the performer, along with a licensing firm, sued the Cruz campaign in May 2016 for copyright infringement.^[10]


Schachner also contributed to the Cassini Finale Music Project, a commemoration of the Cassini mission to Saturn.^[7]