Harry David Gregson-Williams is a Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated British film television and video game score composer and songwriter.
Biography[]
Early in his career, 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 & Drama, where he had been a pupil, and also for a short period in both Egypt and Africa.
For Disney, he scored a number of motion pictures, including The Rock, The Tigger Movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and its sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and three Disneynature films Monkey Kingdom, Penguins, and Polar Bear, as well as the live-action remake of Mulan[1] and The Last Duel. He is also known for scoring films for other studios, like Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the Shrek film series, Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Spy Game, Man on Fire, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Team America: World Police.
Other than films, Gregson-Williams is also known for composing the music for the video games Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He also worked on the music for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, along with composer, Ludvig Forssell. His arrangement of the original "Metal Gear Solid Main Theme" was one of the many tracks he created for the Metal Gear Solid games that involved both orchestral and electronic textures. Hideo Kojima decided to choose him to do the music for Metal Gear Solid 2 after seeing the film The Replacement Killers and felt that the music was perfect for the game.
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- ↑ "Harry Gregson-Williams to Score Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Live-Action Movie". Film Music Reporter. Retrieved on 7 Mar 2020.