Rupert Gregson-Williams
Rupert Gregson-Williams is a composer of film and television music, including TV's Veep and the DC Extended Universe blockbuster Wonder Woman, and is also known in scoring circles for his orchestrations and conducting. With a background in rock and world music, Gregson-Williams displayed a talent for scoring a wide variety of projects, from Adam Sandler comedies and animated family features to historical epics and science fiction spectaculars, all with similar skill and imagination. He also penned the music for the popular television series The Crown and the DC blockbuster Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
Like his brother Harry Gregson-Williams, Rupert was a lead chorister in one of Britain's great traditional academic church choirs, that of St. John's College, Cambridge. In return for singing with the choir at daily services during the school term and touring with it around the world, he received a scholarship to St. John's College's preparatory school and an entrance to Cambridge. Unlike Harry, who graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Rupert admitted to being a rebellious student who got thrown out of school more than once. He believed that he had all the basic knowledge he needed and went to work as a professional musician, mostly in rock & roll bands, after a stint as a teacher in Africa.
A friendship with composer Richard Harvey, which grew from their shared interest in world music and instruments, led him into film music. Rupert had been intrigued by the use of classical music in film ever since seeing Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice (which used excerpts from Gustav Mahler's Third and Fifth Symphonies), and was happy to assist Harvey after the latter landed jobs scoring British television projects. The two worked together in collaboration with Elvis Costello on G.B.H. and Jake's Progress, two TV projects directed by Alan Bleasdale. In the process, Rupert learned much about advanced orchestration. His first original score was for an independent film by Genevieve Jolliffe called Urban Ghost Story, which was a coming-of-age drama rather than a horror picture. Rupert composed an intimate score, mainly for solo piano and flutes, but of a substantial length at 50 minutes.
Rupert's next break came when the iconic film composer Hans Zimmer asked him to join his organization Media Ventures, which provided music for film, television, advertisements, and other commercial uses, including the two-minute piece Rupert wrote for the World Cup soccer finals in Japan. Gregson-Williams worked directly with Zimmer on the score to 1998's The Prince of Egypt, composing certain sequences in the film using Zimmer's melodies set to the composer's specifications. Other film and television projects followed and included 1999's Virtual Sexuality, 1999's Muppets from Space, 1999's Extremely Dangerous, 2000's The Road to El Dorado, and 2001's Hannibal.
In 2004, he gained notice with the highly lauded drama Hotel Rwanda, for which he was bestowed the European Film Composer Award. From there, Gregson-Williams began working with DreamWorks Animation, writing the music for 2006's Over the Hedge and 2007's Bee Movie. He also forged a long-lasting relationship with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company; he worked on 2006's Click, 2007's I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, 2008's You Don't Mess with the Zohan, and 2010's Grown Ups and Just Go with It. He also was capable of scoring weightier, awards-season fare like Mel Gibson's 2016 WWII drama Hacksaw Ridge and the successful Netflix series about the lives of the British Royal Family, The Crown. In 2017, his soundtrack for the DC superhero feature Wonder Woman, which included Gregson-Williams' score and the original song "To Be Human" by Sia, landed on the Billboard 200 and the Top Ten of the soundtracks chart. The following year, he composed the score to the TV period mystery drama The Alienist, and he remained in the DC Universe for the big-screen solo debut of Aquaman. In 2019, he returned to DreamWorks for the animated comedy Abominable. In 2021, he scored Kevin Hart's comedy-drama Fatherhood, and remained Happy Madison's composer of choice, handling the soundtrack for 2020's Hubie Halloween, 2021's Back to the Outback, 2022's Home Team, and 2023's The Out-Laws. 2023 saw Gregson-Williams contribute to the continuation of Aquaman's adventures, writing the music for the 2023 hit Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.
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