Award-winning composer James Hannigan is active in a variety of entertainment industries. Starting out at Electronic Arts in the mid-1990s after a short stint in television, James later based himself at the Pinewood Studios complex in West London, since accumulating numerous credits and five BAFTA nominations for music - along with a win with EA for Theme Park World/Sim Theme Park in 2000. Today, James's music can be heard in numerous multi-million selling titles and TV productions, with his current and past projects including Command and Conquer 4, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest,  Primeval (ITV; Series 3), Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Red Alert 3, Art Academy,  Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix, Freelancer, Republic, Evil Genius, entries in the Warhammer series, Brute Force, Catwoman, Grand Prix 4, Mr Bean, Lost In Space, various EA Sports titles and many others.

Working out of his recording studios in England, James also regularly works with orchestras at home and abroad and these have included The Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of London and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra - recording at locations such as Abbey Road Studios, Skywalker Ranch and Air-Lyndhurst.  

At this time, VGL are touring with some of James's music and, in September 2009, the Eminence Symphony Orchestra debuted the first live performance of 'Soviet March' at the Sydney Entertainment Centre as part of "A Night in Fantasia". Eminence Online.

Participating as a panellist at events such as Tiga's 'Games Meet Film', The Edinburgh International Festival, Musicworks and The BAFTA Interactive Festival, James also writes articles and has been featured on the cover of Develop Magazine, profiled in Post, Audio Media, Resolution, Music, Sound and the Moving Image (MSMI) and other publications - and has been interviewed several times by the BBC.

(Picture shown: Harry Gregson-Williams, Professor Stephen Deutsch and James Hannigan at the Edinburgh International Festival, 2005).