Hannis Brown

Composer and sound designer Hannis Brown has created and mixed music for podcasts and radio programs including The Anthropocene Reviewed, Will Be Wild, Last Day, Scattered, The 11th and The Paris Review Podcast.

Recent commissions and honors include a 2022 du-Pont Columbia award and NAACP Image Award for The History Channel and WNYC’s Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, 2019 du-Pont Columbia Awards for the New York Public Radio’s Trump, Inc and Caught, and a 2015 Peabody Award for production on the podcast Meet the Composer. Projects on the horizon include new collaborations with KCRW’s Bodies podcast, Crooked Media, and a collaboration between the BBC and CBC. He performs on 6 and 12-string guitar with the new-music collective Hotel Elefant.

Hannis holds an M.A. in music composition from NYU’s Steinhardt School.