Biography

Howard Shore’s work with Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings earned him three Academy Awards, four Grammys, and two Golden Globes, as well as numerous critic and festival awards. He has scored more than 100 films, including 17 by David Cronenberg and six by Martin Scorsese. His concert works include a choral symphony, an opera, a Latin mass, three concertos, and two song cycles.

He is an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France, an Officer of the Order of Canada, a recipient of Canada’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been honored by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. He also received the Max Steiner Award, Wojciech Kilar Award, and ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award, among many others. He has given a masterclass with Martin Scorsese at Cannes Film Festival and given talks at Oxford Union, Yale University, New York University, the Juilliard School, UCLA, University of Toronto, Berklee School of Music, and Trinity College Dublin, where he received the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage.