Henry Jackman

Life and career

Jackman was born in Hillingdon, London. He studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and New College, Oxford, University of Oxford.

Jackman 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. "This Could Be Heaven", released from the album, was also co-written by Jackman and used on the movie The Family Man and included on the deluxe edition of Seal's compilation album Hits.

Jackman has released three albums, Utopia (2003), Transfiguration (2005), and Acoustica (2007; with Augustus Isadore).

Jackman 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, Pirates of the Caribbean: 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 spin-off to Kung Fu Panda). Jackman has since composed soundtracks for films such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Henri 4, Gulliver's Travels, X-Men: First Class, Winnie the Pooh, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Wreck-It Ralph, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War and Ron's Gone Wrong. His most successful video game scores were Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Just Cause 3.

In March 2022, Reservoir Media acquired the rights to Jackman's catalog.

Family

Henry Jackman is the son of keyboardist and arranger Andrew Pryce Jackman, who was a member of The Syn and worked for many years with Chris Squire of Yes. His uncle Gregg Jackman is a sound engineer and producer who has worked with the King's Singers 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.

Discography==

Albums

• Voyager (1996): additional music programming
• Earthbound (1997): drum programming
• The Seduction of Claude Debussy (1999): album co-producing
• Universal (1999): album producing
• Weather (1999): rhythm programming and sound designing
• Togetherland (2001): album producing
• Utopia (2003): album producing
• Transfiguration (2005): album producing
• Acoustica (2007): album producing

Songs

• "Flaming Star" (1992): remixing and remastering
• "At the Beginning" (1997): keyboarding, programming and string arranging
• "Women of Ireland" (1997): additional music programming
• "Weather (Henry Jackman Remix)" (1998): co-writing, co-producing and remixing
• "Written in the Stars" (1999): programming
• "I Believe" (1999): programming and mixing
• "This Could Be Heaven" (2001): co-writing, co-producing and programming
• "Time to Fly" (2001): co-writing, co-producing and co-mixing
• "A Grave Situation" (2015): co-writing and co-producing
• "Fate Is Fluid" (2015): co-writing and co-producing
• "The Crown Prince's Speech" (2015): co-writing and co-producing
• "Too Good For This World" (2015): co-writing and co-producing
• "Louisiana Hero" (2021): writing and producing
• "New Friends" (2021): co-writing and co-producing
• "The Comedown" (2021): writing and producing
• "The Future of Friendship / New Friends" (2021): co-writing and co-producing

Filmography

Films

Feature films

2000s

2010s

2020s

Short films

Television

TV series

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

References

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