Gavin Greenaway

Born in London in 1964, Gavin Greenaway develops a career spanning film music, orchestral writing, and conducting. Trained at Strode’s College and then at Trinity College of Music, he began early to work with his father Roger Greenaway, notably on music for British television such as Jimbo and the Jet-Set, The Family Ness and Penny Crayon. His activity subsequently turned largely toward cinema, where he has worked as conductor, arranger, orchestrator, or additional composer on a large number of international productions. His name appears alongside composers such as Hans Zimmer, John Powell, James Newton Howard, or Harry Gregson-Williams on films such as Gladiator, The Thin Red Line, Shrek, Batman Begins, Interstellar, Dunkirk, or Solo: A Star Wars Story. His work is rooted in a symphonic aesthetic tied to image music, with a broad, narrative, and precise writing, nourished by classical repertoires as well as contemporary cinematic language. Parallel to this studio activity, Greenaway also composes for large-scale events and performances, notably for Disney with IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth in 1999 and BraviSEAmo! in 2004. Under his name, Gavin Greenaway released the solo piano album Il Falco Bianco in 2016 and then Woven in 2018, in a more intimate register, focused on piano and neoclassical atmospheres.