Artist's albums
Flying (From "Peter Pan" Soundtrack)
2023 · single
A Hidden Life
2022 · single
Cinematic Nights Vol. 2
2022 · compilation
Light & Magic (Original Soundtrack)
2022 · album
Cinematic Summer Vol. 2
2022 · compilation
Focus: James Newton Howard
2022 · compilation
Corynorhinus (From "Batman Begins")
2022 · single
Raya e l'Ultimo Drago (Colonna Sonora Originale)
2021 · album
dark academia (soundtracks)
2020 · compilation
21st Century Cinema
2020 · compilation
Red Sparrow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2018 · album
All The Way (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2016 · album
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Biography
Pianist, producer, and composer James Newton Howard scored over 60 films beginning in the mid-'80s, including The Fugitive, The Prince of Tides, Pretty Woman, Glengarry Glen Ross, Batman Begins, Michael Clayton, and the Hunger Games series. Howard began taking classical piano lessons at the age of four, playing on a piano owned by his grandmother, who was the Pittsburgh Symphony's concertmaster and violinist during the 1930s and '40s. He went on to study at the USC School of Music and at the Music Academy of the West (in Santa Barbara, California) with Reginald Stewart and Leon Fleisher. He also studied under orchestrator Marty Paich, who would later conduct some of Howard's scores. After graduating from college, Howard joined a short-lived rock band, then worked for a couple of years as a session musician with artists including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In 1975, he joined the band of the most popular artist of that time, Elton John, toured with them during the mid-'70s and later re-joined for a tour in 1980 and again in 1986. Over the years, Howard has worked as a songwriter, producer, or arranger with the such artists as Cher, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rickie Lee Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Toto, and more. He has received numerous Oscar nominations, and won an Emmy Award for his theme for the television show Gideon's Crossing and a Grammy Award in 2009 for his work on The Dark Knight. Those accolades brought continued high-profile film work, such as 2012's The Bourne Legacy, the Hunger Games franchise, and the Huntsman film series. He made his debut in the Harry Potter universe with 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.