Harry Gregson-Williams | |
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Background information | |
Born | 13 December 1961 |
Origin | Sussex, England |
Genres | Film score, video game music |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor, music producer |
Instruments | Piano, percussion |
Years active | 1993–present |
Labels | Wavecrest Music |
Associated acts |
John Powell Nick Glennie-Smith Hans Zimmer David Buckley Atticus Ross Halli Cauthery Marc Streitenfeld Trevor Rabin Alberto Iglesias Audiomachine Leopold Ross |
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is an English composer, orchestrator, conductor, and music producer. He has regularly written for television and films, such as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, and the Shrek franchise. He is the brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.
Gregson-Williams has also composed music for several video games, having notably helped score every main entry in the Metal Gear series since Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
Harry Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College at the University of Cambridge at the age of seven, where he was a child chorister, and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar, followed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.