Harry Gregson-Williams is one of Hollywood’s most sought after composers who has worked on a variety of high-profile projects, all infused with his unique musical talent. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score and a Grammy nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album for his music to Andrew Adamson's epic fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, based on the classic C.S. Lewis novel. He is presently completing scoring its sequel, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
A child prodigy, Gregson-Williams had appeared as a soloist on over a dozen records by age thirteen. He went on to graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Harry first started film composing with Hans Zimmer on such films as: The Lion King, Crimson Tide, Beyond Rangoon, K and Two Deaths. In 1995, Gregson-Williams moved to Los Angeles and quickly launched his career by scoring Billie August’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow. He then worked on The Whole Wide World, The Rock, The Replacement Killers, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Antz and the critically acclaimed Chicken Run. Harry Gregson-Williams was now a recognized and premiere film composer in Hollywood. He then scored the Oscar winning Shrek, for which he received a BAFTA nomination and won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Score, as well as the Annie Award.
In 2005, Gregson-Williams received the Hollywood Composer of the Year Award and composed the scores for Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven and Tony Scott's Domino. He also garnered the Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement from BMI’s Film Music Awards and was nominated for a Classical
Brit Award for his work on Kingdom of Heaven. Gregson-Williams’ other impressive and acclaimed credits include: Shrek 2 ; Shrek the Third, Man on Fire; Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Phone Booth, Veronica Guerin and Team America: World Police, Seraphim Falls, Déja Vu and Gone, Baby, Gone, among many others.
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