Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a film composer.

Early career

He was born in Toronto, Canada, and studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. He was the musical director for the television show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches including the All-Nurse Band and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi - Dan Ackroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee

Successes

One of the most successful and versatile film musicians of our day, he has written the music for such major film productions as Silence of the Lambs, the David Cronenberg remake of The Fly, Naked Lunch, Philadelphia, Ed Wood, Se7en, Dogma, High Fidelity, Panic Room and The Aviator, the last of which earned him a Golden Globe.

The Lord of the Rings

His greatest success to date is his score for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The score for the first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, gained him an Oscar in 2002, while the final film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King earned him another Oscar in 2004.

In 2004 he toured the world conducting local orchestras in the performace of his new symphonic arrangement of his highly acclaimed Lord of the Rings scores. The new work is entitled The Lord of the Rings: Symphony In Six Movements.

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