

Speaking about writing for Tolkien’s fantasy world, Shore says: “The world that I write in is very 19th-century and very green. In 2003, he turned his score for The Lord of the Rings films into The Lord of the Rings Symphony, and conducted its world premiere in New Zealand in the same year.Ī piano concerto by Shore was premiered by Lang Lang in 2010, and the composer has also dipped his foot in opera, with his first being The Fly which was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.įran Walsh, Annie Lennox and Howard Shore pick up the Oscar for Best Original Song for ‘Into the West’ at the 76th Annual Academy Awards. He has written scores for over 40 films, including The Fly, Silence of the Lambs, and The Aviator, for which he won the Best Original Score Golden Globe in 2005. The award-winning composer was born in 1946 and honed his craft at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied under American choral composer, John Bavicchi. It doesn’t feel like a day to me unless that pencil is moving on those pages and ideas are being formed.” Speaking with Classic FM’s John Brunning at the time he was completing his score for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit (which came out a few years after The Lord of the Rings), Howard Shore said: “I write music every day and I have been doing that since I was a youngster. LOTR The Two Towers - Extended Edition - The Last March of the Ents
