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;

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 BYU—Idaho), 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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