Howard Shore

GUEST STAR AND CONDUCTOR,HOLLYWOOD IN VIENNA 2010Howard Shore is among today\'s most respected, honored, and active composers and music conductors.

His work with Peter Jackson on THE LORD OF THE RINGS TROLOGY stands as his most towering achievement to date, earning him three Academy Awards.He has also been awarded four Grammy and three Golden Globe awards. Shore was one of the original creators of Saturday Night Live. He served as the music director on the show from 1975 to 1980. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg, and has scored 12 of the director’s films, including The Fly, Dead Ringers, Crash, Naked Lunch and Eastern Promises for which he was honored with a Genie Award. Shore continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, from Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, The Aviator and Gangs of New York to Ed Wood, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and Mrs. Doubtfire.He is currently working on the film music to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and looks forward to a return to Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien\'s The Hobbit.Shore\'s music has been performed in concerts throughout the world. In 2003, Shore conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings Symphony in Wellington, New Zealand. Since then, the work has had over 140 performances by the world’s most prestigious orchestras. In 2008, Howard Shore\'s opera \"The Fly\" premiered at the Thèatre du Chatelet in Paris and at Los Angeles Opera. Other recent works include Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia and a piano concerto in October 2010 for Lang Lang. Shore received the Career Achievement for Music Composition Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and New York Chapter\'s Recording Academy Honors, ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award and the Frederick Loewe Award. He holds honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and York University and he is an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.