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Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams
Born	December 13, 1961 (age 46)
Nationality	British
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, and Team America: World Police, Gregson-Williams has also worked on the video games Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. 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 Metal Gear Solid 2 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 Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, he has been adding orchestra and techno together to form the style of what Metal Gear Solid stands for. He also worked with other composers who uses 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