Scoring for the Screen

This workshop will be hosted by award winning music composer Niamh Ní Mheara.

Niamh Ní Mheara is an award-winning Irish screen composer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She has composed and orchestrated for film, theatre, visual media and art installations and is also an active performing artist in the Irish and UK music circuit. Niamh has scored many projects including short films Very Very Open (2024) directed by Isis Hope Lloyd, The Sunlight through the Gaps in the Trees (2024) and Ovilia (2024) directed by Han Huang, Blava Terra (2023) directed by Marine Auclair in addition to The Fires (2023) a feature film produced by Galway based director Andrew Thomas which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2023. She won the Fugaz award for Best Soundtrack for Blava Terra at the Premios Fugaz 2024 in Madrid – the National Short Film Awards in Spain. Her work has been exhibited at multiple festivals and exhibitions across Europe including Barcelona Film Festival, Atlántida Mallorca Film Festival, Frame Film Festival, Torrelavega Film Festival and Mecal Film Festival. Niamh studied a bachelor degree in music at University College Cork in 2016 and was later awarded a scholarship to study a Master’s in Scoring for Film, TV and Video games at Berklee College of Music where she graduated in 2022.