Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams, an English composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer, was born on 13 December 1961. His work spans video games, television, and film, with credits 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 numerous projects for Scott Free Productions and Jerry Bruckheimer Films.

He is the older sibling of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. At age seven, Gregson-Williams earned a musical scholarship to St John’s College School in Cambridge, where he sang as a child chorister. He later attended Stowe School, an independent boarding school in Buckinghamshire, as a music scholar, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His early piano practice took place on a Broadwood piano his father purchased with winnings from a hundred-to-one bet on the Grand National.

Over his career, he has collaborated with directors including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Joel Schumacher, Antoine Fuqua, Niki Caro, Nick Park, and Peter Lord.