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Excerpts from the BAFTA Award-Winning Composer, James Hannigan.
Official Website: www.jameshannigan.com
The Song of Orpheus (Excerpt; feat. Regé-Jean Page; The Sandman)
0:38
Harry Potter series - Grandeur at Hogwarts (feat. The Philharmonia Orchestra)
14:11
Yuriko's Theme (Excerpt; feat. Miriam Stockley & Satomi Morimoto, 2008)
2:22
RuneScape: -The Orchestral Collection (Montage; feat. The Philharmonia Orchestra)
17:21
Dead Space 3 - 200 Years Ago On An Icy Planet
7:20
Soviet March (Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Theme; Skywalker Symphony Orchestra)
2:47
The Sandman - A Montage Pt.2
4:27
Village Dance (Excerpt; RuneScape)
1:00
Moon Crash (Excerpt; Dead Space 3)
2:04
Steelrising - A Montage (feat. soprano Miranda Keys and the Budapest Film Orchestra)
6:11
Battle on the Lunar Shuttle
1:33
The Sandman - Master of Dreams (Act III Theme)
2:34
Tranquility at Hogwarts - A Montage
29:52
Discworld - Main Theme (2024)
4:08
Hemmed In
6:46
Transformers Universe - Montage
3:13
The Shape of Angst
5:40
Cry of the Ancients (Dead Space 3)
4:26
Evil Genius Series - A Montage
13:30
Forbidden Forest
1:44
The Life of a Spy (Evil Genius 2)
1:16
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Montage (feat. The Chamber Orchestra of London)
3:29
Draco Combat (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince VG; with reference to Hedwig's Theme)
1:19
Postlude (Terraria Otherworld, 2015)
3:28
(Video Montage Conducted by Allan Wilson and Johannes Vogel; Music by James Hannigan)
The Sandman - A Montage Pt1
2:20
The End of all Things (Command & Conquer; feat. Soname)
2:01
Sunrise
4:43
A Broken Past
3:38
Rising Sun Montage (Command & Conquer Red Alert 3; feat. Miriam Stockley)
8:54
To Save Humanity (Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Adventure Awaits)
1:26
Aegis Dances for the King
2:00
Steelrising - Automatons
3:40
The Village
2:10
Alien Series Montage (Audible/Amazon)
10:28
Undulations
1:35
Primeval - The Death of Prof. Cutter (Season 3)
2:30
Silver Doe
2:23
Mecha Storm + Yuriko MLV Empty MallRemix (Red Alert 3)
2:32
The Artefact
2:04
The Prophet's Ascension (feat. The Philharmonia Orchestra)
8:23
Reign of Angels (Neverwhere, BBC; feat. The Tiffin Boys Choir)
1:13
Transformers Universe - Exploration
3:25
Freelancer (2003, Microsoft) - Finale
52:08
Market Hustle (Excerpt)
1:28
Freelancer (2003) - Races
4:31
Superman Reflects (Kingdom Come; DC)
1:33
Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix4 (Montage)
10:49
Biography
James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning games, television, audio drama and other media. His work includes entries in major game franchises such as Harry Potter, RuneScape, Dead Space, Warhammer, Evil Genius, The Lord of the Rings, Theme Park and Command & Conquer, among many others.
In audio drama, he has become one of the medium’s most prolific composers, with credits including the lavishly cast, landmark series The Sandman – a New York Times #1 and Amazon/Audible’s best-selling Original to date – along with the award-winning Alien series, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens, Kingdom Come (DC), and Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry.
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 – featuring “The Song of Orpheus” sung by Regé-Jean Page – he has recorded world-class orchestras at studios such as Abbey Road, AIR and Skywalker Sound. His music, from Red Alert 3’s viral “Soviet March” to RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection, together with over fifty AAA games and countless placements across television, has accumulated billions of streams and listening hours worldwide. Among Hannigan’s recent projects are The Sandman: Act III, DC’s Kingdom Come, Steelrising, Evil Genius 2, and unannounced projects for Amazon.
His television scoring work has included seasons of Primeval for BBC America, while his music has been licensed for use in an enormous range of shows, from Top Gear and The Grand Tour to Emily in Paris and Saturday Night Live.
Hannigan is also a conference founder and essayist, with work published by Classic FM, Pixel Addict, DEVELOP Magazine and Cambridge University Press, and blogs occasionally on subjects such as retro technology and the implications of generative AI on the arts. A longstanding BAFTA member and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he has been interviewed by BBC Radio, Classic FM, Sky TV, IGN, Forbes and MusicRadar, and in 2012 was made a subject of BAFTA’s Conversations With Composers series held at the Royal Albert Hall.
Other credits include award-winning entries in the FIFA, F1, Space Hulk, Art Academy, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Grand Prix game series; titles such as Freelancer, The Darkening (featuring Christopher Walken, Clive Owen and John Hurt), Catwoman, Reign of Fire, Infestation, Brute Force, Theme Park World, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Conquest, Dead Space 3, Cutthroat Island, Flight of the Amazon Queen, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix through to The Deathly Hallows – along with the BAFTA-nominated Evil Genius and pioneering interactive score of Republic: The Revolution, designed by Demis Hassabis.
A number of his tracks can also be heard in the Super Smash Bros. and Terraria franchises, and his earliest credits also include sound design for films such as the Golden Reel-nominated Lost in Space.
James Hannigan is represented by COOL Music, London, UK.