Greg
Hansen is an award-winning professional composer,
record producer/arranger, and new age recording artist
residing in Utah. He is a 1998-2005 21-time Pearl Award
winner. In 1986 he won the prestigious Peabody Award for
Broadcasting along with others for the radio drama series "Bradbury
13," based on the science
fiction stories of Ray Bradbury. That series also garnered
two Gold Cindy awards. Later he also scored the music for the
United States Film Festival's Silver Screen Award-winning film.
He also arranged and produced several of the tracks found on
the 2002
Olympic CD. Greg recently received the Eliza R. Snow Performing
Arts Award from BYU-Idaho.
His
album"Wilderness" went
to #21 on the national airplay charts (Gavin,
Radio & Records)in 1994. It has been reviewed as "one
of the most stunning and varied albums of this genre."
Greg
has produced and arranged over 400 albums for various clients,
and has over 900 sheet music arrangements and compositions
in print. He has three solo albums and five compilation albums
with his and others' material. He has scored more than 80
industrial and dramatic films for clients including the Public
Broadcasting System (PBS); National
Public Radio; Disney movie
trailers; Discovery Channel; NASA; Turner
Broadcasting; National
Geographic; the LDS
Church; and a host of others.
He
has arranged for David
Foster; Sony
Music (Nashville); EMI Records (New York); The Bellagio
Hotel Watershow Theme in Las Vegas;
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Bob
Hope; The
Osmonds; Senator
Orrin Hatch; The Mormon Tabernacle Choir; the Miss
America Pageant; Children's
Miracle Network; Andy Williams; Theodore
Presser Company; Hal
Leonard; Shawnee
Press; Jensen Publications; and Hope Publishing. He
also arranged an entire educational series of over 1,200
songs from every phase of the United States' cultural pop
music and world music history for Macmillian/McGraw
Hill. His original music has been used in broadcasting
worldwide, by all major foreign and domestic TV networks. His
work has been performed at the inauguration ceremony of
President George W. Bush.
In
the LDS music scene, Greg has arranged and produced music
for Michael McLean, Janice
Kapp Perry, Afterglow, Jenny Oaks Baker, Michael
Dowdle, Felicia Sorensen, Hilary Weeks, Thurl
Bailey, LDS church seminary films and TV commercials,
Lex de Azevedo, Envoy, Especially for Youth, Gladys Knight, Kurt
Bestor, Steven
Kapp Perry, BYU, Ricks
College (now BYUIdaho), and many others renowned
in the industry.
He
is a co-founder of the award-winning record label, Sounds
of Zion/Inspirational Music Showcase, and a columnist for Meridian
Magazine. He is also a board member of the Faith
Centered Music Association, and has long been a guest presenter in
the BYU School of Management MBA program, teaching classes
in creativity and business.
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