Harry Gregson-Williams

Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is an English composer, conductor, orchestrator, and music producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the Metal Gear series, Vader X (with Jerry Goldsmith), Spy Game, Phone Booth, Man on Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Déjà Vu, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Martian, Antz (with John Powell), Spider-Man 1 and 2, The Tigger Movie, Chicken Run, the Shrek franchise, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Monster House (with James Newton Howard), Raven, Arthur Christmas, Mama, Spider-Man 5, Early Man, and Catch-22. He is the older brother of composer Rupert Gregson-Williams.

Education
Gregson-Williams won a musical scholarship to St John's College School in Cambridge at the age of seven. He was a child chorister at the school and later attended Stowe School, a boarding independent school in the civil parish of Stowe in Buckinghamshire, where he was a music scholar. He next went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

He learned to play the piano as a child on a Broadwood piano which his father had bought with the winnings from a hundred-to-one bet during the Grand National.