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James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning audio drama, AAA games, television and other media. A five-time BAFTA nominee, IFMCA Award winner for EA’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and, more recently, Webby Award recipient for The Sandman: Act II, he has recorded world-class orchestras at studios such as Abbey Road, AIR and Skywalker Sound.
His game credits include music for major franchises such as Harry Potter, RuneScape, Dead Space, Evil Genius and Command & Conquer, among others. Across a career spanning over thirty years, Hannigan’s music has accumulated billions of streams and listening hours, from Red Alert 3’s viral “Soviet March” and RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection to The Sandman’s “The Song of Orpheus”, sung by Regé-Jean Page. His television scoring work has included seasons of shows such as Primeval, alongside placements in countless series, from Top Gear and The Grand Tour to Emily in Paris and Saturday Night Live.
In audio drama, he has become one of the medium’s most prolific composers, with credits including Amazon/Audible’s lavishly cast, landmark series The Sandman – the company’s best-selling Original and a New York Times #1 for several months – along with the award-winning Alien series, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens and the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry.
His earlier work includes games in the Warhammer, Theme Park, Space Hulk, Grand Prix, The Lord of the Rings, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, F1 and FIFA series, as well as titles such as Freelancer, The Darkening (with Christopher Walken, John Hurt and Clive Owen), Catwoman, Reign of Fire, Art Academy (also heard within the Super Smash Bros. series), Transformers Universe, Terraria: Otherworld, Evil Genius, and the pioneering interactive score of Republic: The Revolution – designed by Demis Hassabis.
Recent credits include 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, DEVELOP and Cambridge University Press, and blogs occasionally on subjects such as retro technology and the impact of AI on the arts. | NEWS
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