Harry Gregson-Williams
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Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a Golden Globe- and Grammy-nominated British film score composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer.
Biography
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).
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 Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. 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
1995
1996
1997
1998
- Enemy of the State (with Trevor Rabin)
- Antz (with John Powell)
- Armageddon (with Trevor Rabin)
- The Replacement Killers
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
- The Rundown, also called Welcome to the Jungle
- Veronica Guerin
2004
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (With Norihiko Hibino)
- Team America: World Police
- Shrek 2
- Man on Fire
- Bridget Jones 2
- Return to Sender
2005
2006
- Déjà Vu (With Hybrid)
- Flushed Away
- Seraphim Falls
- I Choose Noise (producer, along with Kirsty Hawkshaw & Hybrid)
2007
- 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 Production, Original Score By Stephen Barton)
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
- Code Lyoko The Movie (with Marco Beltrami)
2009
2010
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader which comes out on December 10th, 2010 (main themes, producer, music composed by David Arnold)
- Shrek Goes Fourth
- Code Lyoko Salvation (with Marco Beltrami)
