About Tyler
Professional Career
* 1995 – Present: Tyler Castleton Music, Inc./Diamond Aire Music Publishing – Owner
Provo, Utah & Nashville, Tennessee
* 2012 – Present: Seven Stories Entertainment, LLC – Founding Partner, Provo, Utah & Nashville, Tennessee
* 2000 – 2005, 2008 – 2009: Deseret Book/Shadow Mountain Records – Director of A&R
Salt Lake City, Utah
* 2003 – 2017: Music Director/Producer, Michael McLean’s Forgotten Carols national Christmas tour
* 2004 – 2017: Music Director/Producer, BYU Women’s Conference Music ShowcaseSongwriter
• Wrote or co-wrote songs appearing on over 150 Christian, pop, & country albums for local, national, international recording artists including country superstar Martina McBride, legendary music icon Gladys Knight, entertainer Marie Osmond & The Jets
• Original songs have been included on nearly every Especially for Youth album since 1993, many of which have been licensed repeatedly for EFY collections & compilations
• Managed, negotiated & administered music publishing catalog for regional, national, and international use
• Songs written appear on a total of over 1.5 million albums worldwide
Educator
2018: Co-Director, SongPro Series songwriting workshops2013 – 2018: Adjunct Faculty, Utah Valley University, Songwriting
2012 – Present: Guest lecturer & presenter, Snow College, Songwriting, Commercial Music, and Music Business courses
2007 – 2011: Co-Director & presenter, LDS Music Business Annual Workshop & Seminar (songwriting, music business, & studio recording classes)
2000 – 2009: Guest lecturer & presenter, BYU School of Music, various Media Music & Songwriting courses
2007 – 2008: Adjunct Faculty, BYU School of Music, Film Scoring
2008: Co-Founder & Director, Nashville West Songwriting Seminar
2000 – 2007: Presenter, panelist & board member, Faith Centered Music Association industry workshops & seminars (areas of songwriting, music business, & publishing)
Entertainment Production
2018: Music Director, “Be One” 40th Anniversary Celebration, LDS Conference Center
2004 – 2018: Music Director/Producer, BYU Women’s Conference Music Showcase
2003 – 2022: Music Director/Producer, Michael McLean’s Forgotten Carols national Christmas tour
2012 – 2014: Producer/Artist Manager, Beyond 5
2009: Music Producer/Composer, LDS Church Youth Temple Celebration, Draper & Oquirrh Mountain Temples
2000 – 2008: Music Director/Producer, Annual LDSBA Convention, Shadow Mountain Music Showcase
2002: Music Producer/Composer, Light of the World, LDS Conference Center 2002: Winter Olympics production
1997: Production Manager, LDS Church Sesquicentennial Spectacular
1995 – 2000: Production Manager, Utah Regional Ballet
1992 – 1996: Stage Manager, BYU Young Ambassadors
Career Highlights
• Producer, Arranger, & Songwriter, “Every Step”, Billboard-charting inspirational album, Hilary Weeks, 2011• Executive Producer & Songwriter, “I Can Do This,” Billboard-charting inspirational album, Marie Osmond, 2010
• Executive Producer, Shadow Mountain Records, instrumental in Grammy Award-winning gospel album “One Voice,” Gladys Knight & the Saints Unified Voices, 2006
• Composed scores & arrangements for various clients including the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, ABC Monday Night Movie, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Rush Limbaugh, PBS Television, the LDS Church, BYU Young Ambassadors & Ballroom Dance team, NuSkin International, Provo’s Freedom Festival, BYU-TV and Tuacahn Theater