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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.
Life and careerEarly 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 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
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
- 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
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
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Golden Globe Nominee)
- Kingdom of Heaven
- Domino
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 (
- 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
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- The Taking of Pelham 123
- Code Lyoko: Legacy of War (with Marco Beltrami)
2010
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader which comes out on December 10, 2010 (2011
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