Hunter Hanson is a composer, songwriter, and music editor based in New York City. He received his bachelor’s in music composition from Northwestern University where he received the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award for the Bienen School of Music and went on to receive his master’s in Screen Scoring at NYU where he was awarded the Elmer Bernstein Award in Film Scoring. He is now an adjunct instructor in the Screen Scoring program at NYU where he teaches composition, contemporary scoring techniques, MIDI and DAW production, and music editing.

Hunter’s scoring work (IMDB), engages with new sounds to discover distinct palettes for every collaboration. One such project is the horror feature Dead Tongues which won “Best Feature Film” at the Portland H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Recent film scores include Sirena (NFFTY “Best Narrative" 2024) and the upcoming indie feature film Fidelity. He also works as a music editor on films such as Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) and as a scoring assistant to composer Tamar-kali on projects such as Netflix’s Shirley (2024), National Geographic’s Blink (2024) for which he also wrote additional music, and MGM’s The Fire Inside (2024) which was shortlisted for Original Score at the 2025 Academy Awards.

In 2024 he also assisted and orchestrated for composer Shruti Kumar on her score for the new Haunted Mansion Parlor on the Disney Treasure cruise ship.

Hunter is a founding member of the band Gregular for which he writes songs and performs guitar, violin, and vocals. Gregular released their debut album, The Body, in 2018 and released their sophomore album Soulsinking in 2021. Breezeblow, his premiere release as a solo artist, won a Lennon Award in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

Hunter’s concert music includes collaborations with ensembles such as The Fonema Consort, The Crossing, and Bearthoven, an NYC-based new music trio for whom he composed “Decision Fatigue” (“Merit Award” - Tribeca New Music). His scores often combine live electronics and instrumental performance, frequently searching for interplay between pop and classical idioms.