Hans Zimmer - Legend of Film Composition to Tour Europe for the First Time

Named as one of world's living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph, this German composer has created incredible music for more than 150 films throughout a career spanning nearly 40 years. His back catalogue includes the Oscar winning soundtrack for The Lion King as well as much-loved scores for Gladiator, Inception and Interstellar. Famed for adding electronic sounds to classical orchestral arrangements, he has to date won four Grammy Awards, three BRITs, two Golden Globes and the aforementioned Oscar, and is widely hailed as one of the greatest music makers of our time. He heads out on a first European tour in 2016, kicking off in London at the SSE Arena, Wembley. Here all the classics performed live - get your Hans Zimmer tickets from StubHub UK.

Hans Zimmer Biography - Creating Musical History From The Lion King to Interstellar

Growing up in West Germany, Hans Florian Zimmer began playing the piano at a young age, modifying it with various apparatus, including a chainsaw, to create an alternative sound. In the '70s, he worked with bands like The Buggles, Krisma and Helden before partnering with film composer Stanley Myers to found the Lillie Yard, a recording studio in London. They would go on to collaborate on scores for films like My Beautiful Laundrette before Zimmer went solo, performing a production role on the Academy Award winning score for The Last Emperor in 1987. A career defining moment came the following year with the music for Rain Man providing a previously unheard mix of synthesizers and steel drums to illustrate the unworldliness of protagonist Raymond Babbitt's situation.

His success continued in the early '90s with iconic compositions for Driving Miss Daisy, Thelma Louise and The Lion King. The latter would go on to win an Academy Award, two Grammys and a Golden Globe, before later being adapted into a Broadway musical - which also claimed a Tony Award in 1998. Working alongside acclaimed director Ridley Scott, he created to music for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal in the early '00s and, impressed with his work, Jerry Bruckheimer approached the composer with a request to provide the music for three of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Other notable works in this period include The Last Samurai, The Da Vinci Code and Sherlock Holmes, followed later by work on Christopher Nolan's films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, collaborating with James Newton Howard.

Electronically manipulating 'Non, Je ne Regrette Rien', he created the suspenseful music for 2010 film Inception, revealing he looked to make something simple but iconic and memorable. With further great work on the Academy Award winning 12 Years a Slave, The Amazing Spiderman 2 and more recently Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, he's acquired a great number of fans in his own right. 2016 sees him tour Europe for the first time, with a full live orchestra playing a selection of his greatest hits. Get your Hans Zimmer tickets on StubHub UK to experience the magic.

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