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Harry Gregson-Williams (born December 13, 1961) is a British film score composer.

Professional 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, also a film composer, also taught at Amesbury School during this period).

He later taught music at the Guildhall School of Music, 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 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Shrek, Chicken Run, Antz, Spy Game, The Rock, Armageddon, Man on Fire, and Team America: World Police, Gregson-Williams is also noted for his work on the popular video games Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. His arrangement of the original Metal Gear Solid Main Theme was just the first of many striking works he created for the Metal Gear Solid productions that involved both orchestral and electronic textures. His soundtrack for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty was generally considered a resounding success and an important step forward in blending the mediums of film and video game. More recently, he composed the score to the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven, in which 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.

His most recent big project was The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was released on December 9th, 2005. He has a contract to compose the sequel to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which has been titled The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

His studio is called Wavecrest Music. Gregson-Williams was a member of Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions (formerly known as Media Ventures).

Discography

2008

• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2007

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Shrek the Third
• The Number 23

2006

• Deja Vu
• Flushed Away
• Seraphim Falls

2005

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Domino

2004

• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Team America: World Police
• Shrek 2
• Man on Fire
• Bridget Jones 2
• Return to Sender

2003

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• The Rundown, also called Welcome to the Jungle
• Veronica Guerin

2002

• Phone Booth
• Spy Game

2001

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

2000

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

1999

• Light it up
• The Match
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

• Hotel Paradise

1993

• White Angel

External links

• Harry Gregson-Williams discography
• Harry Gregson-Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• Composer profile at OverClocked ReMix
• 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

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