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).