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James Hannigan is a BAFTA-winning composer with credits spanning games, television, audio drama and other media. His work includes entries in major game franchises such as Harry Potter, RuneScape, Dead Space, Warhammer, Evil Genius, EA Sports, Theme Park, The Lord of the Rings, Command & Conquer and others. 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, he has recorded with ensembles including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Skywalker Symphony orchestras. In the realm of full-cast audio drama, Hannigan has become one of the medium’s most heard composers, with credits including The Sandman – Amazon’s best-selling Audible Original – the Audie award-winning Alien series, DC’s Kingdom Come, Discworld, Neverwhere, Good Omens and the Harry Potter audiobooks read by Stephen Fry. His music, from Red Alert 3‘s tongue-in-cheek “Soviet March” and RuneScape: The Orchestral Collection to “The Song of Orpheus”, sung by Regé-Jean Page, together with over fifty AAA games spanning thirty years and countless placements across television, has accumulated billions of streams and listening hours worldwide. Beyond composing, Hannigan is also a conference founder and writer, with features published by Classic FM, Pixel Addict and DEVELOP Magazine. | READ FULL BIOGRAPHY