In 2025, Phoenix Television hired me to write the theme music for their new day-time ITV show Katie Piper's Weekend Escape. The brief was to combine elements of 90s trip-hop and house, with the feel of day-time TV. After a few attempts, using a combination of sample libraries and real instruments, I came up with something that worked! This commission was quite different to what I normally do, but I was extremely happy with the results and I learned alot from the process.
In 2025, I composed an album of library music for UK publishing company BlipTrax. According to Blip, the album is 'A collection of brilliantly crafted cinematic scores that rise from minimal tension to epic, powerful finales.' and is similarly to the work of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Hans Zimmer. I'll take that!
In 2022, I worked on the development of Emmet Kirwan's Accents. For the show, I played piano, as well as a number of synthesizers for music written in collaboration with Eoin French and Ben Bix. The show was first performed in Dublin's Project Arts Centre, as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2022. In 2025, we brought Accents on a national tour and sold out venues all across Ireland, including Dublin's Ambassador Theatre and Cork's Everyman Theatre.
In 2023, I composed the score for Ellius Grace's debut short, Lost and Found, in conjunction with production company Motherland. It's a beautiful, evocative piece about nostalgia, grief and loss and it was an enjoyable, if challenging piece to score. The film has played at several international film festivals in 2024 and 2025. Ellius and I discussed the use of piano and tape delays to create a subdued, wistful underscore for the action.
In 2021, I was hired as part of the creative team for Emma Martin's contemporary dance show Night Dances. In my role as keyboard/synth player, I workshopped with composer Daniel Fox to write an hour of visceral, violent electronic dance music to accompany a range of dancers of different movement styles. The show was first performed in Dublin's National Stadium, as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2021 has since been performed for Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022, Dublin Dance Festival in 2024 and a national tour of Ireland in 2025.
In early 2023, I was commissioned by aerialist Kate Dunne to write the music for her Dublin Fringe Festival slow Sl(t)áinte). The music was a combination of ambient soundscapes, dystopian walls of noise and more conventional electronic dance tracks. It was a dream to work on, as Kate gave me the creative freedom to create exactly the kind of horror-noise music that I love to make!