James Hannigan
- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
James Hannigan is a BAFTA award-winning composer with a career spanning several industries, from multi-million selling games to TV and groundbreaking audio drama. His credits include entries in the Harry Potter, Dead Space, Evil Genius, RuneScape, Transformers, Theme Park, FIFA, The Lord of the Rings and Command and Conquer game series, along with full-cast audio adaptations of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and the Alien series. His themes, such as the parodic Red Alert 3 theme: Soviet March, have been streamed hundreds of millions of times on platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, and his other awards include a Webby People's Choice Award for The Sandman Act II and an IFMCA award for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game (also BAFTA award-nominated for Original Music, 2010). Recent projects include a new theme for Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe and the NY Times #1 bestselling adaptation of The Sandman Act III (with a cast including James McAvoy, Michael Sheen and Regé-Jean Page).
Hannigan's diverse recent and past projects include Steelrising (2022), Evil Genius 2 (2022), entries in the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Space Hulk, F1, Grand Prix, and Warhammer game series; Primeval (BBC America; Additional Music), Red Alert 3 (with J.K. Simmons and Tim Curry), Dead Space 3, Nintendo's Art Academy (also heard in the Super Smash Bros. series), Terraria: Otherworld, Reign of Fire, Catwoman, the innovative interactive music of Republic: The Revolution (designed by Google DeepMind co-founder, Demis Hassabis; BAFTA Award Nomination, Original Music, 2003), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2, Call of Antia, Evil Genius (BAFTA Award Nomination, Original Music, 2004), Command and Conquer 4, Conquest, Freelancer, The Darkening (with Christopher Walken, Clive Owen and the late John Hurt), Transformers Universe, Theme Park World (aka Sim Theme Park; BAFTA Award, 2000), RuneScape 3, RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection, the hugely popular Harry Potter audio book series read by Stephen Fry, BBC R4 adaptations of Good Omens and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Christopher Lee) and many more.
Music from Hannigan's back catalogue can be heard in numerous TV productions, commercials and trailers - ranging recently from Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Top Gear and The Grand Tour to Floor is Lava, SpongeBob SquarePants, Disney shorts, America's Got Talent, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum. He was recorded with numerous world class orchestras including The Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Hannigan was made a subject of BAFTA's "Conversation With Composers" series, held at the Royal Albert Hall.
James Hannigan is represented by COOL Music in London, England.
Hannigan's diverse recent and past projects include Steelrising (2022), Evil Genius 2 (2022), entries in the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Space Hulk, F1, Grand Prix, and Warhammer game series; Primeval (BBC America; Additional Music), Red Alert 3 (with J.K. Simmons and Tim Curry), Dead Space 3, Nintendo's Art Academy (also heard in the Super Smash Bros. series), Terraria: Otherworld, Reign of Fire, Catwoman, the innovative interactive music of Republic: The Revolution (designed by Google DeepMind co-founder, Demis Hassabis; BAFTA Award Nomination, Original Music, 2003), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2, Call of Antia, Evil Genius (BAFTA Award Nomination, Original Music, 2004), Command and Conquer 4, Conquest, Freelancer, The Darkening (with Christopher Walken, Clive Owen and the late John Hurt), Transformers Universe, Theme Park World (aka Sim Theme Park; BAFTA Award, 2000), RuneScape 3, RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection, the hugely popular Harry Potter audio book series read by Stephen Fry, BBC R4 adaptations of Good Omens and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Christopher Lee) and many more.
Music from Hannigan's back catalogue can be heard in numerous TV productions, commercials and trailers - ranging recently from Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Top Gear and The Grand Tour to Floor is Lava, SpongeBob SquarePants, Disney shorts, America's Got Talent, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum. He was recorded with numerous world class orchestras including The Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Hannigan was made a subject of BAFTA's "Conversation With Composers" series, held at the Royal Albert Hall.
James Hannigan is represented by COOL Music in London, England.