Gavin Greenaway
Gavin Greenaway (born 15 June 1964) is an English music composer and conductor. He is the son of Roger Greenaway.
Gavin Greenaway

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- Birthplace
- London, England
- Birth Name
- Gavin Greenaway
- Born
- 15 June 1964
- Occupation
- Pianist, Composer, Conductor, arranger
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Strode's College
- Languages
- English
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Gavin Greenaway (born 15 June 1964) is an English music composer and conductor. He is the son of Roger Greenaway.
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• Birthplace — London, England • Birth Name — Gavin Greenaway • Born — 15 June 1964 • Genre — Film Score, Classical • Occupation — Pianist, Composer, Conductor, arranger • Website — gavingreenaway.com • Instrument — Piano
Early life and career
Early life and career
Educated at Strode's College and Trinity College of Music, Greenaway started working with his father before leaving school. Their compositions for BBC children's television include Jimbo and the Jet-Set, The Family Ness and Penny Crayon, as well as Channel 4's 1996 drama The Fragile Heart. Greenaway also conducted the scores for the films The Thin Red Line, Gladiator and Pearl Harbor, all of which were composed by Hans Zimmer. He also conducted many scores for DreamWorks Animation such as Shrek, Chicken Run, Antz, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Prince of Egypt, Bee Movie, and The Road to El Dorado. In addition, he was commissioned by Disney to compose the score for their fireworks show IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth and a parade called Tapestry of Nations at Epcot. The resulting music from the fireworks show have been used by Disney since 1999. With permission from Disney, who hold the rights to the composition, and the Hal Leonard Corp., who hold the publishing rights, Reflections of Earth has now been arranged for the idiom full symphonic wind band and dedicated to the Pennsylvania Symphonic Winds and their musical director Phil Evans. The first performance of this arrangement was in Radnor PA on 2 December 2012. For Tokyo DisneySea, Greenaway composed the score for "BraviSEAmo!", the nightly pyrotechnics and water show in 2004. He also conducted in Paul McCartney's oratorio Ecce Cor Meum, and has provided music-only soundtracks to accompany VHS-releases such as The Everton Football Club Season Review 1988/89. His music was heard during both the 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV Halftime Show and the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Greenaway was one of the composers commissioned to write music for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012 to honour the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The piece, entitled The New Water Music, was inspired by the George Frederic Handel's Water Music and contained movements by several modern British composers working under the direction of Greenaway. After the pageant, Greenaway was critical of BBC's live coverage of the pageant, as it did not feature the performance at all. In his personal blog, he expressed the view that the presenters had focused on interviewing celebrities and ignored the musicians. He has also recently conducted music for the Star Wars anthology film, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Il Falco Bianco is Gavin Greenaway's first solo piano album, released in May 2016. Woven is Gavin Greenaway's second album released in November 2018 Together with cellist Caroline Dale, Gavin Greenaway formed a duo called Cloud Chamber. The album Skylines is due for release Oct 2026.
Video games
Video games
• Year — Title — Studio(s) — Composer(s) — Notes • 2014 — Destiny — Bungie — Martin O'Donnell Michael Salvatori — Conductor • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 — MercurySteam Konami — Oscar Araujo • 2015 — Halo 5: Guardians — * 343 Industries * Microsoft Studios — Kazuma Jinnouchi • 2016 — Uncharted 4: A Thief's End — * Naughty Dog * Sony Interactive Entertainment — Henry Jackman • 2017 — Uncharted: The Lost Legacy • 2018 — Dissidia Final Fantasy NT — * Koei Tecmo * Square Enix * Team Ninja — * Takeharu Ishimoto * Keiji Kawamori * Tsuyoshi Sekito • Marvel's Spider-Man — * Insomniac Games * Sony Interactive Entertainment — John Paesano • 2019 — Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order — * Respawn Entertainment * Electronic Arts — * Stephen Barton * Gordy Haab • 2022 — God of War Ragnarök — * Santa Monica Studio * Sony Interactive Entertainment — Bear McCreary • 2023 — Star Wars Jedi: Survivor — * Respawn Entertainment * Electronic Arts — * Stephen Barton * Gordy Haab • 2024 — Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — * MachineGames * Bethesda Softworks — Gordy Haab • 2025 — Battlefield 6 — * Battlefield Studios * Electronic Arts — Henry Jackman
Feature films
• Year — Title — Composer(s) — Notes • 1992 — Peter's Friends — Musical director • 1993 — Needful Things — Patrick Doyle — Additional music arranger • 1994 — Exit to Eden — Additional orchestrator • 1995 — Beyond Rangoon — Hans Zimmer — Orchestrator • 1997 — Face/Off — John Powell — Composer of additional music • The Peacemaker — Hans Zimmer — Conductor • 1998 — Antz — * Harry Gregson-Williams * John Powell — * Composer of additional music * Conductor • The Prince of Egypt — Hans Zimmer — Conductor • The Thin Red Line • 1999 — Forces of Nature — John Powell — * Additional music arranger * Composer of additional music (uncredited) * Conductor • Light It Up — Harry Gregson-Williams — Conductor • 2000 — The Road to El Dorado — * Hans Zimmer * John Powell — * Composer of additional music (uncredited) * Conductor • Gladiator — * Lisa Gerrard * Hans Zimmer — Conductor • Chicken Run — * Harry Gregson-Williams * John Powell — * Composer of additional music (uncredited) * Conductor • 2001 — Hannibal — Hans Zimmer — Conductor • Shrek — * Harry Gregson-Williams * John Powell • Pearl Harbor — Hans Zimmer • Evolution — John Powell — * Composer of additional music * Conductor • I Am Sam — Conductor • 2002 — D-Tox — * John Powell * Irman SA • The Time Machine — Klaus Badelt • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron — Hans Zimmer — * Composer of additional music (uncredited) * Conductor • 2003 — Paycheck — John Powell — Conductor • 2005 — The Ring Two — * Hans Zimmer * Henning Lohner * Martin Tillman • Madagascar — Hans Zimmer • Batman Begins — * Hans Zimmer * James Newton Howard • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Julian Nott • 2006 — United 93 — John Powell • Happy Feet — Additional music arranger • Blood Diamond — James Newton Howard — Conductor (children's choir) • 2007 — The Bourne Ultimatum — John Powell — Conductor; credited as "Gravin Greenaway" • Bee Movie — Rupert Gregson-Williams — Conductor • The Golden Compass — Alexandre Desplat — Additional conductor • The Great Debaters — * James Newton Howard * Peter Golub — Conductor • 2008 — Iron Man — Ramin Djawadi • Kung Fu Panda — * Hans Zimmer * John Powell • The Dark Knight — * Hans Zimmer * James Newton Howard • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa — Hans Zimmer • 2009 — Monsters vs. Aliens — Henry Jackman — Conductor (score and choir) • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen — * Hans Zimmer * Steve Jablonsky — Conductor (choir) • 9 — Deborah Lurie — Conductor • Sherlock Holmes — Hans Zimmer • 2010 — Henri 4 — * Hans Zimmer * Henry Jackman • Green Zone — John Powell • Kick-Ass — * Henry Jackman * Ilan Eshkeri * John Murphy * Marius de Vries • How to Train Your Dragon — John Powell — * Additional orchestrator * Conductor (score and choir) • Fair Game — Conductor • Despicable Me — Heitor Pereira — Music director • Inception — Hans Zimmer — Score consultant • Megamind — * Hans Zimmer * Lorne Balfe — Conductor (score and choir) • Love & Other Drugs — James Newton Howard — Conductor • Tron: Legacy — Daft Punk • Gulliver's Travels — Henry Jackman • 2011 — Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — Hans Zimmer — Conductor (choir) • Kung Fu Panda 2 — * Hans Zimmer * John Powell — * Additional orchestrator * Conductor (score and choir) • Transformers: Dark of the Moon — Steve Jablonsky — Conductor (choir) • Puss in Boots — Henry Jackman — Conductor (score and choir) • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Hans Zimmer — Conductor • 2012 — Man on a Ledge — Henry Jackman • Safe House — Ramin Djawadi • The Hunger Games — James Newton Howard — * Conductor (score and choir) * Orchestrator • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! — Theodore Shapiro — Conductor • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted — Hans Zimmer — Conductor (score and choir) • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter — Henry Jackman — Conductor • The Dark Knight Rises — Hans Zimmer • Total Recall — Harry Gregson-Williams • 2013 — Fast & Furious 6 — Lucas Vidal • Turbo — Henry Jackman • Ender's Game — Steve Jablonsky • 2014 — Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Henry Jackman • How to Train Your Dragon 2 — John Powell • Interstellar — Hans Zimmer • Kingsman: The Secret Service — * Henry Jackman * Matthew Margeson • 2015 — Dough — Lorne Balfe • Terminator Genisys • Pan — John Powell • Burnt — Rob Simonsen • 2016 — Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — * Hans Zimmer * Tom Holkenborg — Conductor (choir) • Captain America: Civil War — Henry Jackman — Conductor • Spark — Robert Duncan • The Angry Birds Movie — Heitor Pereira • Jason Bourne — * David Buckley * John Powell • Brimstone — Tom Holkenborg • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — * Matthew Margeson * Mike Higham — Conductor (choir) • A Cure for Wellness — Benjamin Wallfisch — Conductor • 2017 — Kong: Skull Island — Henry Jackman • La Gran Promesa — Rodrigo Flores López • The Boss Baby — * Hans Zimmer * Steve Mazzaro • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — Tyler Bates • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales — Geoff Zanelli — Conductor (choir) • Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer — Conductor • Detroit — James Newton Howard • Breathe — Nitin Sawhney • Kingsman: The Golden Circle — * Henry Jackman * Matthew Margeson • 2018 — Early Man — * Harry Gregson-Williams * Tom Howe • Charming — Tom Howe • Solo: A Star Wars Story — * John Powell * John Williams • The Predator — Henry Jackman • Smallfoot — Heitor Pereira • Mary Poppins Returns — Marc Shaiman • 2019 — How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — John Powell • Pokémon: Detective Pikachu — Henry Jackman • Brightburn — Timothy Williams • Dora and the Lost City of Gold — * John Debney * Germaine Franco • Judy — Gabriel Yared • 6 Underground — Lorne Balfe • 2020 — The Witches — Alan Silvestri • Black Beauty — Guillaume Roussel • The Midnight Sky — Alexandre Desplat • Wonder Woman 1984 — Hans Zimmer • News of the World — James Newton Howard • 2021 — Zack Snyder's Justice League — Tom Holkenborg • Black Widow — Lorne Balfe • The Boss Baby: Family Business — Hans Zimmer Steve Mazzaro • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings — Joel P. West • 2022 — Ambulance — Lorne Balfe • Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore — James Newton Howard • Shin Ultraman — Shiro Sagisu • Don't Worry Darling — John Powell — Additional Score Conductor • Spirited — Dominic Lewis (score) Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (songs) — Score Conductor • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Heitor Pereira — Conductor • 2023 — Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret — Hans Zimmer • The Little Mermaid — Alan Menken — Conductor (songs) • Gridman Universe — Shiro Sagisu — Conductor • The Creator — Hans Zimmer • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One — Additional Conductor (London) • Migration — John Powell — Conductor • Rebel Moon — Tom Holkenborg • 2024 — Kung Fu Panda 4 — Hans Zimmer Steve Mazzaro • Damsel — David Fleming • The Fall Guy — Dominic Lewis • Ultraman: Rising — Scot Stafford • Wicked — John Powell Stephen Schwartz — Conductor (incidental score) • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 — Tom Holkenborg — Conductor • 2025 — How to Train Your Dragon — John Powell • The Roses — Theodore Shapiro • The Lost Bus — James Newton Howard
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