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James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning games, television, full-cast audio drama and other media. His work includes entries in major game franchises such as Harry Potter, RuneScape, Dead Space, Warhammer, Evil Genius, EA Sports, Theme Park, The Lord of the Rings and Command & Conquer, among others. A five-time BAFTA nominee, an IFMCA Award winner for EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and, more recently, a Webby Award recipient for The Sandman: Act II, he has recorded world-class orchestras at studios such as Abbey Road, AIR and Skywalker Sound. In audio drama, he has become one of the medium’s most widely heard composers, with credits including The Sandman – Amazon’s best-selling Audible Original – the Audie award-winning Alien series, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens and the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry. His music, from Red Alert 3‘s tongue-in-cheek “Soviet March” and RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection to “The Song of Orpheus”, sung by Regé-Jean Page, together with over fifty AAA games and countless placements across television, has accumulated billions of streams and listening hours worldwide. Among his recent projects are The Sandman Act III, DC’s Kingdom Come, Steelrising, Evil Genius 2, Call of Antia, and unannounced projects for Amazon. He is also a conference founder and essayist, with work published by Classic FM, Pixel Addict and DEVELOP, along with forewords for books such as Understanding Video Game Music (Cambridge). | READ FULL BIOGRAPHY
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– TIM CURRY (COMMAND & CONQUER: RED ALERT 3)