Alan Hankers

Alan Hankers is a composer, sound designer, and pianist/keyboardist creating music for concert halls, film, and video games. Drawing on a background in classical, metal, and electronic music, his work explores the intersection of rich orchestration with modern electronic and experimental textures. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world, featured at the Game Awards in Los Angeles, and heard in commercials for clients including Mercedes and Google. He recently composed the score for the Webby-nominated animated short Denmark and wrote the music and sound design for the tower defense game Heroes Suck. As a performer, Alan plays keyboards in the progressive metal band JIA and performs works by living composers as a pianist and music technologist.