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He was born in [[Toronto, Canada]], and studied music at the [[Berklee College of Music]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. From [[1969]] to [[1972]], he performed with the group [[Lighthouse (band)|Lighthouse]]. He was the musical director for the television show [[Saturday Night Live]] from [[1975]] to [[1980]], appearing in many musical sketches including the All-Nurse Band and dressed as a beekeeper for a [[John Belushi]] - [[Dan Ackroyd]] performance of the [[Slim Harpo]] classic ''I'm a King Bee''.
==Successes==
One of the most successful and versatile film composers of our day, he has written the music for such major film productions as ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'', ''[[Philadelphia (movie)|Philadelphia]]'', ''[[Ed Wood (movie)|Ed Wood]]'', ''[[Se7en]]'', ''[[Dogma (movie)|Dogma]]'', ''[[High Fidelity]]'', ''[[Panic Room (movie)|Panic Room]]'' and ''[[The Aviator]]'', the last of which earned him a [[Golden Globe]]. Since ''[[The Brood]]'' in [[1979]], he has been a consistent collaborator with [[David Cronenberg]], scoring all his subsequent films except ''[[The Dead Zone (movie)|The Dead Zone]]'' ([[1983]], scored by [[Michael Kamen]]).
===The Lord of the Rings===
His greatest success to date is his score for [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[Lord of the Rings (movies)|Lord of the Rings]]'' film trilogy. The score for the first film, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', gained him an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] in [[2002]], while the final film, ''[[The_Lord_of_the_Rings: The_Return_of_the_King (movie)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' earned him another two Oscars (one for the score and one for the song "Into the West", sung by [[Annie Lennox]]) in [[2004]].
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