Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1974 in Hillingdon, Middlesex[1]) is a film score composer and keyboard player.
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Jackman studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and University of Oxford.
He has done programming and production work with artists including Mike Oldfield (Voyager), Sally Oldfield (Flaming Star), Trevor Horn/Art of Noise (The Seduction of Claude Debussy), Elton John and Gary Barlow. He co-produced Seal's unreleased 2001 album Togetherland. One song which was released from the album, and which was also co-written by Jackman, was "This Could Be Heaven", used on the movie "The Family Man" and included on the deluxe edition of Seal's compilation album Hits.
He has released three albums, Utopia (2003), Transfiguration (2005)[2] and Acoustica (2007; with Augustus Isadore).
He had various minor roles on film scores since 2006, generally working with mentor Hans Zimmer, including for "The Da Vinci Code" (music programmer), "The Dark Knight" (music arranger) and additional music for "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", "At World's End", "The Simpsons Movie", "Kung Fu Panda" and "Hancock". In 2009, Jackman, Zimmer and John Powell won the 2008 Annie Award for Music in an Animated Television Production or Short Form for their work on DreamWorks Animation's "Secrets of the Furious Five" (a sequel to "Kung Fu Panda").
Jackman has since moved on to leading on scores himself, composing soundtracks for "Monsters vs. Aliens", "Henri IV", "Gulliver's Travels", "X-Men: First Class" and "Winnie the Pooh".
Henry is the son of keyboardist/arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman, who was a member of The Syn and worked for many years with Chris Squire of Yes. Henry Jackman himself and members of Spock's Beard formed the backing band for a one-off live performance by Chris Squire in August 2006. His uncle Gregg Jackman is a sound engineer and producer who was has worked with Yes and Barclay James Harvest; Henry and his uncle both worked on Moa's 1999 album Universal. His grandfather, Bill Jackman, played clarinet on "When I'm Sixty-Four" on The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.