Gavin Greenaway (born 15 June 1964) is an English music composer and conductor. He is the son of Roger Greenaway.[1]
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Birth Name: | Gavin Greenaway |
| Birth Date: | 15 June 1964 |
| Genre: | Film Score |
| Occupation: | Composer, conductor, arranger |
| Instrument: | Piano |
Educated at Strode's College and Trinity College of Music, Greenaway started working with his father before leaving school. Their compositions for BBC children's television include Jimbo and the Jet-Set, The Family Ness and Penny Crayon, as well as Channel 4's 1996 drama The Fragile Heart.
Greenaway also conducted the scores for the films The Thin Red Line, Gladiator and Pearl Harbor, all of which were composed by Hans Zimmer. He also conducted many scores for DreamWorks Animation such as Shrek, Chicken Run, Antz, , The Prince of Egypt, Bee Movie, and The Road to El Dorado. In addition, he was commissioned by Disney to compose the score for their fireworks show and a parade called Tapestry of Nations at Epcot. The resulting music from the fireworks show have been used by Disney since 1999. With permission from Disney, who hold the rights to the composition, and the Hal Leonard Corp., who hold the publishing rights, Reflections of Earth has now been arranged for the idiom full symphonic wind band and dedicated to the Pennsylvania Symphonic Winds and their musical director Phil Evans. The first performance of this arrangement was in Radnor PA on 2 December 2012.
For Tokyo DisneySea, Greenaway composed the score for "BraviSEAmo!", the nightly pyrotechnics and water show in 2004. He also conducted in Paul McCartney's oratorio Ecce Cor Meum, and has provided music-only soundtracks to accompany VHS-releases such as The Everton Football Club Season Review 1988/89.
His music was heard during both the 2000 Super Bowl XXXIV Halftime Show and the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Greenaway was one of the composers commissioned to write music for the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012 to honour the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The piece, entitled The New Water Music, was inspired by the George Frederic Handel's Water Music and contained movements by several modern British composers working under the direction of Greenaway.[2] After the pageant, Greenaway was critical of BBC's live coverage of the pageant, as it did not feature the performance at all.[3] In his personal blog, he expressed the view that the presenters had focused on interviewing celebrities and ignored the musicians.[4]
Il Falco Bianco is Gavin Greenaway's first solo piano album, released in May 2016.[5]
He has also recently conducted music for the Star Wars anthology film, .
| Year | Title | Composer(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Musical director | |
| 1993 | Needful Things | Patrick Doyle | Additional music arranger |
| 1994 | Exit to Eden | Additional orchestrator | |
| 1995 | Beyond Rangoon | Hans Zimmer | Orchestrator |
| 1997 | Face/Off | John Powell | Composer of additional music |
| The Peacemaker | Hans Zimmer | Conductor | |
| 1998 | Antz | ||
| The Prince of Egypt | Hans Zimmer | Conductor | |
| The Thin Red Line | |||
| 1999 | Forces of Nature | John Powell | |
| Light It Up | Harry Gregson-Williams | Conductor | |
| 2000 | The Road to El Dorado | ||
| Gladiator | Conductor | ||
| Chicken Run | |||
| 2001 | Hannibal | Hans Zimmer | Conductor |
| Shrek | |||
| Pearl Harbor | Hans Zimmer | ||
| Evolution | John Powell | ||
| I Am Sam | Conductor | ||
| 2002 | D-Tox | ||
| The Time Machine | Klaus Badelt | ||
| Hans Zimmer | |||
| 2003 | Paycheck | John Powell | Conductor |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | ||
| Madagascar | Hans Zimmer | ||
| Batman Begins | |||
| Julian Nott | |||
| 2006 | United 93 | John Powell | |
| Happy Feet | Additional music arranger | ||
| Blood Diamond | James Newton Howard | Conductor (children's choir) | |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | John Powell | Conductor; credited as "Gravin Greenaway" |
| Bee Movie | Rupert Gregson-Williams | Conductor | |
| The Golden Compass | Alexandre Desplat | Additional conductor | |
| The Great Debaters | Conductor | ||
| 2008 | Iron Man | Ramin Djawadi | |
| Kung Fu Panda | |||
| The Dark Knight | |||
| Hans Zimmer | |||
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | Henry Jackman | Conductor (score and choir) |
| Conductor (choir) | |||
| 9 | Deborah Lurie | Conductor | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Hans Zimmer | ||
| 2010 | Henri 4 | ||
| Green Zone | John Powell | ||
| Kick-Ass | |||
| How to Train Your Dragon | John Powell | ||
| Fair Game | Conductor | ||
| Despicable Me | Heitor Pereira | Music director | |
| Inception | Hans Zimmer | Score consultant | |
| Megamind | Conductor (score and choir) | ||
| Love & Other Drugs | James Newton Howard | Conductor | |
| Daft Punk | |||
| Gulliver's Travels | Henry Jackman | ||
| 2011 | Hans Zimmer | Conductor (choir) | |
| Kung Fu Panda 2 | |||
| Steve Jablonsky | Conductor (choir) | ||
| Puss in Boots | Henry Jackman | Conductor (score and choir) | |
| Hans Zimmer | Conductor | ||
| 2012 | Man on a Ledge | Henry Jackman | |
| Safe House | Ramin Djawadi | ||
| The Hunger Games | James Newton Howard | ||
| The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Theodore Shapiro | Conductor | |
| Hans Zimmer | Conductor (score and choir) | ||
| Henry Jackman | Conductor | ||
| The Dark Knight Rises | Hans Zimmer | ||
| Total Recall | Harry Gregson-Williams | ||
| 2013 | Fast & Furious 6 | Lucas Vidal | |
| Turbo | Henry Jackman | ||
| Ender's Game | Steve Jablonsky | ||
| 2014 | Henry Jackman | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 | John Powell | ||
| Interstellar | Hans Zimmer | ||
| 2015 | Dough | Lorne Balfe | |
| Terminator Genisys | |||
| Pan | John Powell | ||
| Burnt | Rob Simonsen | ||
| 2016 | Conductor (choir) | ||
| Henry Jackman | Conductor | ||
| Spark | Robert Duncan | ||
| The Angry Birds Movie | Heitor Pereira | ||
| Jason Bourne | |||
| Brimstone | Tom Holkenborg | ||
| Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children | Conductor (choir) | ||
| A Cure for Wellness | Benjamin Wallfisch | Conductor | |
| 2017 | Henry Jackman | ||
| La Gran Promesa | Rodrigo Flores López | ||
| The Boss Baby | |||
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Tyler Bates | ||
| Geoff Zanelli | Conductor (choir) | ||
| Dunkirk | Hans Zimmer | Conductor | |
| Detroit | James Newton Howard | ||
| Breathe | Nitin Sawhney | ||
| 2018 | Early Man | ||
| Charming | Tom Howe | ||
| The Predator | Henry Jackman | ||
| Smallfoot | Heitor Pereira | ||
| Mary Poppins Returns | Marc Shaiman | ||
| 2019 | John Powell | ||
| Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | Henry Jackman | ||
| Brightburn | Timothy Williams | ||
| Dora and the Lost City of Gold | |||
| Judy | Gabriel Yared | ||
| 6 Underground | Lorne Balfe | ||
| 2020 | The Witches | Alan Silvestri | |
| Black Beauty | Guillaume Roussel | ||
| The Midnight Sky | Alexandre Desplat | ||
| Wonder Woman 1984 | Hans Zimmer | ||
| News of the World | James Newton Howard | ||
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Tom Holkenborg | |
| Black Widow | Lorne Balfe | ||
| 2022 | Shin Ultraman | Shiro Sagisu | |
| Heitor Pereira | |||
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Alan Menken | Conductor (songs) |
| Gridman Universe | Shiro Sagisu | Conductor | |
| Migration | John Powell | ||
| 2024 | Wicked | John Powell Stephen Schwartz | Conductor (incidental score) |
| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Composer(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Destiny | Bungie | Martin O'DonnellMichael Salvatori | Conductor |
| 2018 | Dissidia Final Fantasy NT | |||
| Marvel's Spider-Man | John Paesano | |||
| 2019 |