BAFTA Award-winning Composer James Hannigan  works in games, television and film, with game credits including entries in the HARRY POTTER, WARHAMMER, LORD OF THE RINGS and COMMAND AND CONQUER series, along with contributing to television shows such as ITV's PRIMEVAL. Starting out at Electronic Arts in the mid-1990s, James later based himself at the Pinewood Studios complex in West London, 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 many multi-million selling titles, and among his credits are: Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, 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 (Nintendo),  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 (New Line Cinema; Sound Design), various EA Sports titles and many others.

Working out of his recording studios in England, James also regularly works with orchestras and choirs at home and abroad and these have included The Philharmonia, the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of London, The Pinewood Singers and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra - recording at locations such as Abbey Road Studios, Skywalker Ranch, Phoenix Sound and Air-Lyndhurst.  James frequently works with soloists as well, such as Tony Hinnigan (Titanic, Braveheart), Miriam Stockley (Adiemus), Miranda Keys and Soname - to name but a few.

At this time, Video Games Live 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), Film Score Monthly 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).