Howard Shore

Composer Howard Shore has won three Academy Awards for his score to The Lord of the Rings as well as four Grammys, three Golden Globes and numerous critic and festival awards for his music. He is an Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France, the recipient of Canada’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and is an officer of the Order of Canada. He has scored over 100 films and collaborated with many esteemed directors: David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson, David Fincher, Jonathan Demme, Tim Burton, Arnaud Desplechin, Sydney Lumet, James Gray, and Barbet Schroeder. In 2023 Radio France presented three concerts, over four and a half hours of music, celebrating the music of Howard Shore. Also in 2023, Shore was invited to give a masterclass at the Cannes Film Festival sponsored by SACEM with the participation of Martin Scorsese on their collaboration. His guitar concerto The Forest was composed for Miloš and commissioned and conducted by Alexander Shelley for The National Arts Centre Orchestra. The concerto premiered on May 1, 2019 and was released by Decca on Miloš’ album The Moon and The Forest in April 2021. Shore’s opera The Fly (2008) premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera. Other works include the piano concerto Ruin and Memory for Lang Lang (2010), the song cycle A Palace Upon the Ruins commissioned for mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano (2014), a cello concerto Mythic Gardens commissioned for Sophie Shao (2012), Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (2008), Sea to Sea in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation (2017), and the song cycle L’Aube premiered in October 2017 performed by Susan Platts and commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. 2018 saw the premiere performance of Shore’s Latin Mass for the Hof Church in Lucerne, Switzerland. His score for François Girard’s film The Song of Names premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019 and won the Canadian Screen Awards for Orignal Score and Song. In 2020, his scores for Michel Hazanavicius’ film Le Prince Oublié premiered in France, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and he won the Canadian Screen Award for Original Score for Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy. Shore continues his ongoing collaboration with David Cronenberg with 2022’s Crimes of the Future and now with 2024’s The Shrouds, their 17thth feature film together.