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Clare College.
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Christopher Willis
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He is the composer of the music to the 2013 Disney Mickey Mouse Shorts, and co-composer (with Rupert Gregson-Williams) of the music to the Home Box Office comedy series Veep. He has also written music for a number of film scores (credited with "additional music") with several other film composers including Carter Burwell, Harry Gregson-Williams, and Henry Jackman. His filmography includes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Participant 2, Winnie the Pooh, X-Men: First Class, Shrek Forever After, Grown Ups, You Don"t Mess With The Zohan and Veep.
His concert music includes a piece written specially for The British Broadcasting Corporation Proms in 2010 entitled Mashup.
The music is a written-out mashup of other pieces from the programme of the concert at which it was premiered. He is also a musicologist specializing in eighteenth-century music, especially Domenico Scarlatti, although he has written about other subjects including American minimalism.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and has written a number of scholarly articles, including a chapter to the book Domenico Scarlatti Adventures: Essays to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of His Death, and articles in the journals Early Music and Eighteenth-Century Music.
