Ryan Shore is a Canadian composer, songwriter, conductor, music producer, and music director for film, television, virtual reality, records, games, concerts, and theater. He is often known from his scores for Star Wars, Scooby-Doo!, Elmo, and Go! Go! Cory Carson. He is the nephew of Academy Award winning film composer Howard Shore.
Shore's accolades include three Emmy Award nominations, a Grammy Award nomination, two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, two Telly Awards, an ASCAP Award, and a Thailand Academy Award. He is a Yamaha Artist and a graduate of the Berklee College of Music.
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Music career
Shore attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full-tuition scholarship, receiving a Bachelor of Arts major in Film Scoring.
Shore was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer/Arranger/Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, where he worked with Lady Gaga, John Legend, Adam Levine, Anna Kendrick, Common, Tim McGraw, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jennifer Hudson.
Shore's 100+ composing credits include the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In the Heights (additional music), Mark Steven Johnson's romantic comedy features Champagne Problems (Netflix), Love in the Villa (Netflix), and Love, Guaranteed (Netflix), Simon West's Bride Hard starring Rebel Wilson, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (HBO Max), Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures (Lucasfilm), Star Wars Forces of Destiny (Lucasfilm), Prime (Universal) starring Meryl Streep, score and songs for Go! Go! Cory Carson (Netflix), Julie's Greenroom (Netflix) starring Julie Andrews with all new puppets from the Jim Henson Company, score and songs for Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (Disney), Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (Warner Bros), Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (Warner Bros), Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (Universal)(Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Music Direction and Composition), Spy Hunter (Warner Bros), The Shrine (Grammy Award nomination, Best Score), Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World featuring saxophone solos by David Sanborn, Cop and a Half: New Recruit (Universal), Harvard Man (Lionsgate), and The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay). He also composed on-camera music for Fur, starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr., and was seen in the film performing his original music.