Henning Lohner - Film Scoring

Film Scoring

In 1996, Lohner moved to Los Angeles to work as full-time composer at Media Ventures (now Remote Control) film music studios, founded by oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer. (His) Remote Control Productions are considered the top talent campus for composers in the entertainment industry. Lohner’s career as film music composer began with apprenticeships for Zimmer on such films as Broken Arrow, Gladiator, and The Thin Red Line, progressing to additional composing on Zimmer films such as Spanglish and The Ring. Lohner has scored over 50 feature films to date. Over the years, the two German-born composers have worked together closely and regularly, resulting in the mutual scoring of such films as the German animation Laura's Star and Dreamwork’s The Ring Two - which earned Lohner two BMI Music Awards in recognition from his peers. Of the few established German composers in Hollywood, Lohner is the only one to regularly work in his home country. Der Grosse Bagarozy (The Devil & Mrs. D, 1999, dir. Bernd Eichinger), Starcatcher (2000, dir. Nico Caro, for the World Expo 2000), Lauras Stern (2004), Little Dodo (2007), and Bloch (2010, dir. Jan Schuette) are to be named here. Generally speaking, Lohner’s film scoring is directed towards the genres: children’s films (the Laura’s Star series), romantic comedies (Marcello, Marcello), drama (Love Comes Lately), comedy (Werner Herzog’s Incident at Loch Ness), and horror films (Hellraiser: Deader, Mimic Sentinel, Timber Falls, et al.). Lohner’s new score to the silent movie classic The Hands of Orlac was premiered at the Ghent opera house during the International Film Festival 2001 in Belgium, proposing a new approach in the fusion of film and concert music.