NIAMH NI 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 and was invited to speak as a panelist for the Irish Screen Composer's Guild at The Galway Film Fleadh Festival 2023 to discuss her score for The Fires.
Her work has been exhibited at multiple festivals and exhibitions across Europe including Barcelona Film Festival, Atlantida 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.
A personal note
We all live in our own world. Music helps us to understand those worlds, to articulate our most powerful thoughts and emotions. That is why I love writing music for others. I get to live in somebody else's world for a little while - I get to hear what it sounds like for them.