Helen Jane Long

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Helen Jane Long Biography

Known for her prolific solo composing career in which she has released various albums of her own original piano and orchestral compositions. In 2012, she released her 3rd full-length album of original classical works titled Intervention.

She began her training as a classical pianist at age 4. She subsequently learned a wide variety of other orchestral instruments. She began composing at the outset of her collegiate career, but dropped out before finishing her degree.

In 2003, she served as a musical assistant to Howard Shore during the composing of The Lord of the Rings film score. Her second album Embers, released in 2010, became the most requested album on the UK radio station Classic FM shortly after its release.

She was born and raised in Hampshire, England.

Her duties while working for Howard Shore on The Lord of the Rings’ film score was as his copy editor for various scene-specific compositions.

Long was born on 10 April 1974 in Hampshire, England. She began training as a classical pianist at age 4, moving on to also learn clarinet, guitar, cello, vocals, organ, and violin.

Helen Jane Long (born 10 April 1974) is a British composer, musician and pianist, best known for various advertisement contracts, her work on several film projects in a variety of genres, and, most recently, her contemporary-classic piano albums, Embers (2010) (BLE) and Porcelain (Warner Music Group). In 2003, Long worked as music assistant to Howard Shore on the film score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Long composed the original music for the movie thrillers The Only Hotel and Surveillance 24/7.

In 2003 Long served as a music score assistant for composer Howard Shore on the historic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, as well as the extended DVDs. Long, who had met Shore before the films, served essentially as his personal copy editor for the sheet music he wrote daily for new scenes. She was also known on set for reliably supplying brownies and pancakes.

She is well known for scoring the often played Volkswagen Passat commercials in 2005. Since 2005 she has scored a large amount of for-television documentaries on Channel 4, Channel 5, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC, including Behind the Da Vinci Code and Open Gardens in 2008. She has also scored several short films and the feature films The Only Hotel and Surveillance (2007). She has done several recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, notably in 2007 when she worked with them to compose and record a music CD of orchestral music.

Long was Radio Classic FM’s Guest List Composer in 2007. She was also selected as Audio Network’s Composer of the Month for February 2010.

Long released her debut album Porcelain on 24 July 2007 on Warner Classics. The album is a collection of original piano compositions, many in a classically expressive and filmic style. Besides Long on piano, the recording sessions also included musicians Jonathan Hill and Nick Holland. The cello used in the recordings was handmade by Long’s father. As of 1 February 2010, Porcelain was the top selling album on America’s largest classical radio station, and she secured a sell-out tour of the United States.

On 3 May 2010 Long released her second piano album Embers with BLE Music Group. The album quickly became widely requested on worldwide classical radio stations, and was “most requested” on Classic FM radio.

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