Harry Gregson-Williams
From the Metal Gear Wiki
| Harry Gregson-Williams | |
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 Harry Gregson-Williams | |
| Born | December 13, 1961 (age 46) |
| Nationality |  British
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| Known for | Film scores |
| Occupation | Composer, Conductor, Music producer |
Harry Gregson-Williams (born December 13, 1961) is a Golden Globe- and Grammy-nominated British film score composer.
[edit] 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.
In addition to scoring a number of motion pictures including Kingdom of Heaven, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, The Rock, Shrek, Chicken Run, Antz, Spy Game, Man on Fire, X-men Origins: Wolverine, and Team America: World Police, Gregson-Williams has also worked on the video games Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear Solid 4. His arrangement of the original Metal Gear Solid Main Theme was one of many works he created for the Metal Gear Solid productions that involved both orchestral and electronic textures.
Hideo Kojima decided to choose him to do the music for MGS2 after seeing the film The Replacement Killers and deciding the music was perfect for the game.
[edit] Style
Harry Gregson-Williams has been known to use computers to generate music as well as other composers in the business. With this, he is also known to add techno twist and also comes out with tracks alone that are just basically techno (ex. "Sonic Terrorist Remix" – Deja Vu). In 'MGS2 & 3, he has been adding orchestra and techno together to form the style of what Metal Gear Solid stands for. He has also worked with other composers who use the same style: John Powell, who he worked together on the Shrek series; Hans Zimmer, who he worked with on The Rock; and Steve Jablonsky, who had composed Transformers and Command & Conquer 3.
[edit] External Links
- Harry Gregson-Williams at the Internet Movie Database
- Harry Gregson-Williams at Soundtrack.net
- Harry Gregson-Williams at wikipedia
