James Newton Howard

Pianist, manufacturer, and composer Adam Newton Howard scored more than 60 films from the mid-’80s, like the Fugitive, The Prince of Tides, Pretty Female, Glengarry Glen Ross, Batman Starts, Michael Clayton, as well as the Food cravings Video games series. Howard started taking traditional piano lessons at age four, playing on the piano possessed by his grandmother, who was simply the Pittsburgh Symphony’s concertmaster and violinist through the 1930s and ’40s. He continued to study in the USC College of Music with the Music Academy from the Western (in Santa Barbara, California) with Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleisher. He also researched under orchestrator Marty Paich, who later on conduct a few of Howard’s ratings. After graduating from university, Howard became a member of a short-lived rock-band, then worked for two years like a program musician with performers including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In 1975, he became a member of the band of the very most well-known artist of this period, Elton John, toured with them through the mid-’70s and later on re-joined to get a tour in 1980 and once again in 1986. Over time, Howard spent some time working like a songwriter, maker, or arranger using the such performers as Cher, Globe, Wind & Open fire, Rickie Lee Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Bob Seger, Pole Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Toto, and even more. He offers received several Oscar nominations, and earned an Emmy Honor for his theme for the tv screen display Gideon’s Crossing and a Grammy Honor in ’09 2009 for his focus on The Dark Knight. Those accolades brought continuing high-profile film function, such as for example 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, the Food cravings Games franchise, as well as the Huntsman film series. He produced his debut in the J.K. Rowling wizarding world with 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and How to locate Them.