Bio
RYAN SHORE has spent his career telling stories through music. A three-time Emmy® Award- and GRAMMY® Award-nominated composer, songwriter, music producer, music director, and conductor, Shore has created music across film, television, animation, games, records, theater, and the concert stage—building a career defined by a lifelong fascination with the emotional power of music.
Long before composing for Star Wars, Scooby-Doo!, Sesame Street, and films and series around the world, Shore began as an instrumentalist. He studied saxophone, piano, flute, and clarinet, an early immersion in melody, harmony, orchestration, and performance that would ultimately shape the way he approaches music for the screen. After studying Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music, he developed a musical life that has continually crossed boundaries between composing, songwriting, conducting, arranging, producing, and performing.
That versatility has become a hallmark of Shore’s work. His 100+ scoring credits range from the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie musical In the Heights and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Forces of Destiny and Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures, to The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo, Go! Go! Cory Carson, Love in the Villa, Love, Guaranteed, Sesame Street, and numerous Scooby-Doo! films. His recent feature scores include Mark Steven Johnson’s Champagne Problems, Simon West’s Bride Hard, and Andrew Niccol’s I, Object.
Beyond the screen, Shore’s career has placed him on both sides of the conductor’s podium. He has conducted The New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, and The Czech Philharmonic, and has performed as a saxophonist with artists including John Williams, Matchbox Twenty, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole, Dave Koz, Arturo Sandoval, Gerry Mulligan, and Clark Terry. His Broadway and theater work has included orchestrations and arrangements for concerts starring some of Broadway’s leading performers.
Shore was Assistant Music Director and Contributing Composer / Arranger / Orchestrator for the 87th Academy Awards, working on performances by Lady Gaga, John Legend, Common, Jennifer Hudson, Adam Levine, Anna Kendrick, and others. The experience reflected a thread that has run throughout his career: moving between the intimacy of writing music and the scale of bringing it to life with world-class artists and musicians.
Across those different worlds, Shore’s approach remains rooted in the same idea: music can give a story an emotional life beyond what can be seen or spoken. Whether writing for an orchestra, a song, an animated galaxy, an intimate drama, or a live stage, his work is driven by melody, storytelling, and the search for the musical voice that belongs uniquely to each project.
Shore is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Recording Academy, the Television Academy, and the Society of Composers & Lyricists. He has served multiple terms as a Governor of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy and was Co-Chair of the inaugural Los Angeles Chapter Songwriters & Composers Wing Committee.