Gregory Magee

Irish composer Gregory Magee won Best Score in the 2005 Irish Film & TV Awards for his music for the feature Winters End, directed by Patrick Kenny and produced by Damien Donnelly. He composed and produced all the music for The Fairytaler, a 26 part multi-award winning animation series, based on the stories of Hans Christian Anderson. Produced by Magma/A-Films/Super - RTL, the series has been broadcasted in more than 90 countries.

Other tv credits include Fleabag Monkeyface, I'm a Monster, Zombie Hotel (BBC/Magma/Telegael/France 3); Under The Hawthorn Tree (RTE/Channel 4) and the reality based tv series Cabin Fever (Coco TV/RTE). He has scored a multitude of shorts including An Evil Cradling, based on the book by Brian Keenan (Kavaleer Productions); The Cat & The Moon, an adaptation of the Yeats play produced by Patrick Bergin for Crimson Films; The Milliner (Kavaleer); The Angelic Organ and The Nest, both for Rocket Animation; Limbo (Zanzibar); Ocras (TG4); The Longest Ditch (Espresso Films/TG4); A Lonely Sky (Zanita) and more. His documentaries include Blaire Maine for Rapid Films.

Earlier in his career Gregory worked as a music supervisor on the feature Countess Cathleen for Crimson Films and a scoring supervisor on the features The Last Word (TG4/TV5); A Love Divided (Parallel Films); Filleann An Feall (TG4) and the IMAX film Rheged - The Lost Kingdom.

He received his formal music training at The Royal Academy of Music in Dublin and afterwards gained his music degree at Trinity College. He went on to study with the legendary American TV composers Don Ray and Bob Drasnin. He was later awarded a bursary by Screen Training Ireland to undertake further film music studies at UCLA.

He has also written concert and theatre music and has contributed to a variety of publications from instrument tutors to songbooks, many of them published by Walton's Music Publishing in Dublin.

Gregory Magee