Miles Hankins, award-winning composer, orchestrator, and
music producer, boasts a diverse body of work spanning the
entertainment industry. Based in Los Angeles, his lifelong passion
for sound, the moving image, and musical narrative have earned him a
reputation as a dedicated craftsman in the storytelling process.
Recently, Miles co-composed the score for Columbia Pictures’ “The
Night Before,” with Marco Beltrami. Directed by Jonathan
Levine, the holiday comedy stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen,
and Anthony Mackie. Miles composed and produced the original
score for Anonymous Content’s darkly comedic “Len & Company,”
directed by Tim Godsall and starring Rhys Ifans, Juno Temple, and
Jack Kilmer, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival
and Edinburgh Film Festival in 2015. Miles contributed
additional music to the scores for Twentieth Century Fox’s summer
action features “Fantastic Four” and “Hitman: Agent 47,” and he is
composing the fantasy adventure score for the animated series “LEGO
Elves” on the Disney Channel. Additionally in television, Miles
composed the original score for CBS’s primetime series “3,”
executive produced by Chris Columbus, and has worked on television
series for NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, USA, and SyFy including “Family Guy,”
“Burn Notice,” “Flash Gordon,” “The Apprentice,” and “Who Do You
Think You Are?” His compositions can be heard in over 200
television series in total, broadcast across the U.S. and
abroad.
Awarded by Hans Zimmer as one of five finalists in the 2006
Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition, Miles was
selected from hundreds of international applicants. He received
ASCAP’s Steve Kaplan award in 2010, and was one of twelve selected
participants in the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in 2009.
On the concert stage, Miles has been commissioned to compose and
conduct at music festivals, and to lecture on film music at
universities across the US. His work as score reader
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic has afforded him the opportunity
to work alongside many music and film luminaries, including John
Williams, Joshua Bell, and Christophe Eschenbach.
Raised in New York on the movies of Kubrick, Leone, and Scorsese,
Miles grew up as much a student of film as of music. He spent his
childhood shooting home movie shorts on a Canon camcorder and
studying piano, violin, and composition with a diverse range of
gifted teachers, including a Julliard professor and a former musical
director for Marilyn Monroe. With the birthday present of his first
digital sound generator at age twelve–a Roland SC-55 Sound
Canvas–his love of creating electronic music was born. Miles
received his bachelor of music from the University of Miami Frost
School of Music, where he majored in jazz piano performance, as well
as studying composition, orchestration, and film scoring techniques.
Further studies were conducted at the Eastman School of Music, and
later in the private studio of renowned concert and opera composer,
Daron Aric Hagen. |