James Hannigan - Биография

James Hannigan (born July 23, 1971) is an award-winning British-born composer.

His past and current projects include Command and Conquer 4, Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince (video game), Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, C&C Red Alert 3: Uprising, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (game), Primeval (ITV/Impossible Pictures), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game), Freelancer, Brute Force, Catwoman, Evil Genius, Republic: The Revolution, Sim Theme Park, Sim Coaster, Grand Prix 4, Warhammer, F1 Series, F1 Manager, FIFA Soccer Manager, Reign of Fire, Conquest: Frontier Wars, Infestation, Privateer: The Darkening and others.

Hannigan's music has been nominated four times by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), one of which was for the music used in the Evil Genius computer game, and he shared a win with Electronic Arts in 2000 for Sim Theme Park. An accomplished sound designer, in earlier years Hannigan also worked on films such as Lost in Space and was based at Pinewood Studios in the UK between 1997 to 2007.

In 2004, Hannigan wrote "Changing Our Tune", a seminal cover article for the UK's Develop magazine, which outlined the differences between scoring for games and conventional linear media forms. He has also been featured and/or interviewed in journals such as Resolution, Audio Media, Post and Musician, and has talked at events such as the Edinburgh International Games Festival, Musicworks and the BAFTA Interactive Festival. In 2007, a collage of James's music was added to Video Games Live - debuting in London at the Royal Festival Hall on October 22, 2007, and featuring the Philharmonia orchestra.

James Hannigan's popular 'Soviet March' theme from the game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 will be performed at 'A Night in Fantasia', to be performed by the Eminence Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia on September 26, 2009.