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Lebrecht’s has a very popular website — SlippeDisc.com.
Lebrecht lives in central London and is currently writing another novel.
HOWARD SHORE’s (Composer) music is performed in concert halls around the world by the
most prestigious orchestras and is heard in cinemas across the globe.
Shore’s musical interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative world of THE LORD OF THE
RINGS and THE HOBBIT, as portrayed in the films directed by Peter Jackson, have enthralled
people of all generations for years. This work stands as his most acclaimed composition to date
awarding him with three Academy Awards
®
, four Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes
®
, as
well as numerous critics and festival awards.
He is an officer of the Order of Canada, an Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la
France and the recipient of Canada’s Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. The National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures honored Shore with an award for Career Achievement for
Music Composition and the City of Vienna bestowed him with the Max Steiner Award. Shore
has received numerous other awards for his career achievements.
Shore was one of the original creators of “Saturday Night Live” and served as music director
from 1975-1980. At the same time, he began collaborating with David Cronenberg and has since
scored fifteen of the director’s films, including THE FLY, CRASH, and NAKED LUNCH. He
was awarded Canadian Screen Awards for MAPS TO THE STARS for score and
COSMOPOLIS for both score and song. His original scores to A DANGEROUS METHOD,
EASTERN PROMISES and DEAD RINGERS were each honored with a Genie Award. Shore
continues to distinguish himself with a wide range of projects, including five films with Martin
Scorsese: HUGO, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR (for which he won his third Golden
Globe
®
Award), GANGS OF NEW YORK, and AFTER HOURS. His other credits include ED
WOOD, SE7EN, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, PHILADELPHIA, MRS. DOUBTFIRE,
and the score for Tom McCarthy’s Academy Award
®
-winning film SPOTLIGHT.
His opera, “The Fly” (2008), which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and at Los
Angeles Opera, recently completed a successful run in Germany at Theatre Trier. His other
works include: “Fanfare,” for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (2008); the piano concerto
“Ruin and Memory” (2010), for Lang Lang; the cello concerto “Mythic Gardens” (2012),
featuring Sophie Shao; the song cycle “A Palace Upon the Ruins” (2014), featuring mezzo-
soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano; “Sea to Sea” (2017), featuring Measha Brueggergosman, a song
for orchestra, soloist, and choir, in celebration of Canada’s 150
th
anniversary of confederation;
the song cycle “L’Aube” (2017), performed by Susan Platts and commissioned by the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra; “Latin Mass” (2018), for the Hof Church in Lucerne, Switzerland; and