James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning games, television, film, and audio drama. 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, among his credits are landmark series The Sandman – Amazon/Audible’s best-selling Original – the award-winning Alien series, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens, and the Harry Potter audiobooks.

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.

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. Among recent scoring projects are The Sandman: Act III, DC’s Kingdom Come, Steelrising, Evil Genius 2, Call of Antia, Discworld, and unannounced projects for Amazon.

Previous 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 in the Wing Commander universe such as Freelancer and Privateer 2: 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 the Guinness world record-breaking RuneScape - along with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix through to The Deathly Hallows, and the BAFTA-nominated, pioneering interactive scores of Evil Genius and Republic: The Revolution, designed by Demis Hassabis (later CEO of Google DeepMind).

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.

He is also a conference founder and essayist - with work published by Classic FM and Cambridge University Press, as well as cover features for Pixel Addict and DEVELOP - and blogs occasionally on subjects such as retro technology and the impact 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, BBC News, 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.

James Hannigan is represented by COOL Music, London, UK.

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