Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is an English composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the Metal Gear series, Phone Booth, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Team America: World Police, Antz, The Tigger Movie, Chicken Run and its sequel, the Shrek franchise, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, Early Man, Catch-22, and several films from Scott Free Productions and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. He is also the older brother of fellow composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.
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- 1961.
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- United Kingdom.
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- composer, film score composer, manufacturer, recording artist, conductor and musician.
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Gregson-Williams collaborated with several film directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Joel Schumacher, Antoine Fuqua, Niki Caro, Nick Park, and Peter Lord.
Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school. He later attended Stowe School, an independent boarding school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He learned to play the piano as a child on a Broadwood piano which his father had bought with the winnings from a hundred-to-one bet during the Grand National.
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The Tigger Movie (Expanded motion picture Soundtrack By Harry Gregson-Williams) (2000) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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- 1.AllMusic. Harry Gregson-Williams.
- 2.Harry Gregson-Williams. Stowe School.
- 3.Creative Cribs – Harry Gregson-Williams. 22 February 2016.
- 4.Cowboys & Aliens. Hybrid Scores website.
- 5.Harry Gregson-Williams Scoring Nimrod Antal's 'Retribution' ('The Ambush'). Film Music Reporter. 7 June 2022.
- 6.Annie Awards: Legacy - 29th Annual Annie Awards. Annie Awards.
- 7.B, Brian. The 2001 Saturn Awards. MovieWeb. 2002-06-13.
- 8.Harry Gregson-Williams. BAFTA.
- 9.Outstanding Music Composition For A Limited Series, Movie Or Special (Original Dramatic Score) 2018 - Nominees & Winners. Television Academy.
- 10.Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series Or Special (Original Dramatic Score) 2022 - Nominees & Winners. Television Academy.
- 11.Willman, Chris. Hollywood Music in Media Awards Noms Led by 'Emilia Pérez' and 'Blitz,' With Elton John, Hans Zimmer and Scores More Among the Nominees. Variety. 2024-11-06.
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