Biography

Hunter Hanson is a composer and songwriter based in New York City whose music spans concert works, film and video game scores, songwriting, and music production and technology. He received his bachelor’s in music composition from Northwestern University and his master’s in Screen Scoring at NYU Steinhardt where he was awarded the Elmer Bernstein Award in Film Scoring. Hanson is currently an adjunct instructor in the Screen Scoring program at NYU.

Hanson primarily scores and sound designs films and video games. He scored the horror film Dead Tongues which won “Best Feature Film” at the Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and also works as a score technical assistant and music editor on projects such as Netflix’s Mixtape (2021), After Sherman (2022), and Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023).