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Harry Gregson-Williams
Birth name	Harry Gregson-Williams
Born	13 December 1961 (1961-12-13) (age 48)
Origin	United Kingdom
Genres	Film scores, Video game music
Occupations	Composer, Conductor, Music producer
Instruments	Piano and Percussion
Years active	1993-Present

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a Golden Globe- and Grammy-nominated British film score composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer.

Life and career

Early in his career, Harry Gregson-Williams held a position in the 1980s as a music teacher to pupils at the Amesbury School in Hindhead, Surrey, England (his brother Rupert Gregson-Williams, also a film composer, also taught at Amesbury School during this period). Also in the 1980's Harry was an estate agent for Palmer Snell in Wells Somerset.

He later taught music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he had been a pupil, and also for a short period in both Egypt and Africa.

In addition to scoring a number of motion pictures including Kingdom of Heaven, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Rock, Shrek, Chicken Run, Antz, Spy Game, Man on Fire, Domino, and Team America: World Police, Gregson-Williams has also worked on the video games Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. His arrangement of the original Metal Gear Solid Main Theme was one of many works he created for the Metal Gear Solid productions that involved both orchestral and electronic textures.

In his score to the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven, he introduced a mix of operatic and Middle Eastern themes. One track, Ibelin, was reprised as the closing credits theme with singer Natacha Atlas performing Arabic lyrics.

He scored The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as the second installment in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. (David Arnold is under contract for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.) He also composed the soundtrack for the latest film in the X-Men film series, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Harry has also worked with the electronic music group Hybrid. In 2004, he produced a track called The Drop (Man On Fire Edit) for Hybrid Present Y4K. He and Kirsty Hawkshaw worked with Hybrid on their 2006 album, I Choose Noise.

His studio is called Wavecrest Music. Gregson-Williams was a member of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions (formerly known as Media Ventures) along with John Powell, Klaus Badelt, and Mark Mancina.

Discography

1993

• White Angel

1995

• Hotel Paradise

1996

• The Rock (with Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith)
• The Whole Wide World

1997

• The Borrowers
• Deceiver
• Smilla's Sense of Snow (with Hans Zimmer)

1998

• Enemy of the State (with Trevor Rabin)
• Antz (with John Powell)
• Armageddon (with Trevor Rabin)
• The Replacement Killers

1999

• Light It Up
• The Match
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000

• Chicken Run (with John Powell)
• King of the Jungle
• The Tigger Movie
• The Magic of Marciano

2001

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (with Norihiko Hibino)
• Shrek (with John Powell)
• Spy Kids

2002

• Phone Booth
• Spy Game

2003

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• The Rundown
• Veronica Guerin

2004

• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (with Norihiko Hibino)
• Team America: World Police
• Shrek 2
• Man on Fire
• The Edge of Reason
• Return to Sender

2005

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Golden Globe nominee)
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Domino

2006

• Déjà Vu
• Flushed Away
• Seraphim Falls
• I Choose Noise (producer, along with Kirsty Hawkshaw & Hybrid)

2007

• Plasma Pong
• Gone Baby Gone
• Jolene
• Shrek the Third
• The Number 23
• The Riches
• Shrek the Halls
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (main theme and music producer, original score by Stephen Barton)^[1]

2008

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (with Nobuko Toda)
• The Forbidden Kingdom (score producer, music composed by David Buckley)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• Jolene

2009

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• The Taking of Pelham 123

2010

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (main themes, producer, music composed by David Arnold)
• Shrek Forever After
• Unstoppable

References

External links

• Harry Gregson-Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
• Harry Gregson-Williams discography at MusicBrainz
• An interview with Harry Gregson-Williams
• Epicenter Games Interviews Harry Gregson-Williams, an interview with Harry Gregson-Williams regarding Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, from EpicenterGames
• Harry Gregson-Williams at scorereviews.com