Dr. Natasa Paulberg

Dr. Natasa Paulberg is an award-winning Australian/Irish composer with compositions for the concert hall, television, film, advertising and gaming. Natasa has scored many projects including the acclaimed The Hunger documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, and performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the National Australia Bank What do you want? advertising campaign and Screen Ireland’s Irish Stories on Screen promotional trailer. She has won two Best Original Score awards for the film The Yellow Dress, Best Original Score for The Hunger and has been nominated for two Jerry Goldsmith Awards in music for film and advertising. Natasa holds a Masters in Music and Media Technologies and PhD in Composition and Music Technology from Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin.

CATERINA SCHEMBRI

Caterina Schembri is an Italian-Colombian composer and producer based in Dublin. She has composed pieces for a wide range of musicians including Ficino Ensemble, Tonnta, Chamber Choir Ireland, Spilliaert Trio, the Dublin Viols, members of the UCDSO, the BNR Orchestra, percussion ensemble Tridio, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke and Cellist Kate Ellis.

Her music has been successful on the screen featuring in numerous short films. Caterina has also worked as Orchestrator and in the score preparation department for TV and Film productions in Ireland, Malaysia and Korea.

Caterina has undertaken the role of music producer in a number of orchestral and hybrid recordings, including INO’s Elektra and A Thing I Cannot Name. She’s currently working as the general manager for the record label Ergodos and developing different projects as a composer, orchestrator and producer.

Dr. Ciarán Crilly

Dr. Ciarán Crilly has over twenty years professional experience as an orchestral conductor and violin/viola player. He is a Lecturer in Orchestral Conducting and Head of School in the UCD School of Music. He founded UCD Symphony Orchestra in 2002, and has since conducted it in over fifty performances at major Irish venues and throughout Europe. He has been a guest conductor for several professional orchestras in Europe and the US, and has worked regularly in the studio, including TV, film and commercial recordings for the Irish Film Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. He teaches a foundational conducting course in UCD, and is a regular guest lecturer and examiner in conducting at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He is currently Chair of the Council for Heads of Music in Higher Education.

Dr. Laura Anderson

Dr. Laura Anderson is a musicologist specialising in film music and sound design studies. She has published on a range of topics in this field and is co-author of The Screen Music of Trevor Jones: Technology, Process, Production (Routledge, 2019).  Laura regularly presents her research at international conferences and has delivered pre-screening talks at the UK National Media Museum and the Irish Film Institute. An Assistant Professor in Musicology at University College Dublin, Laura completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Vasilis Milesis

Vasilis Milesis is a film composer, music technology professor and Unreal authorized instructor. He is the first Greek national to receive a Master’s Degree from Berklee College of Music in Film Scoring, where he graduated with Summa cum Laude. Vasilis has won several awards for his work in scoring for films, including Best Score at Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, winner of the Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival and is a four times winner at the Global Film Festival Awards.

TONY PERREY

Tony is a founder of Pulse College and Director of Audio in Windmill Recording Lane Studios.

Tony is an expert in Music Technology and recording. For over 25 years Tony has worked as an industry leader in both education and commercial music production. He is an Apple Logic instructor and is also one of the original team that developed the Pro Tools worldwide curriculum.

SUSAN WARD

Susan Ward is a musician, composer, producer and teacher from Dublin. She holds a BA in Music Performance (Classical Singing) from the Royal Irish Academy of Music and an MA in Scoring for Film, TV and Interactive Media from Pulse College. She has over twenty years experience teaching music. She has also been performing her whole life whether that be her original music or on the theatre stage. Susan is always learning and took numerous courses with Pulse College in audio and music technology before completing her Masters. She uses these skills as a composer and producer and loves to share this experience through teaching.

DEBBIE SMITH

Debbie Smith is a Recording, Mix and Post Production Engineer based in Dublin. An experienced audio professional, she has worked on a broad range of projects including Commercial Music, Film/TV Soundtracks and Post Production for clients including Universal Music, Sony, Warner Bros, Channel 5, RTE and TG4. She has extensive experience working with  international orchestras including the RTE Concert Orchestra, Irish Film Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, Dublin Phil Harmonic Orchestra and various contemporary ensembles. Debbie holds a Masters in Creative Digital Media from the Technological University Dublin. She is course director for Music Production for Games at Griffith College and Pulse College, and is the Principal Recording Engineer for the MA in Scoring for Film, TV and Interactive Media.

SIMON SHIRE

Simon Shire is an expert on Entertainment Law. Simon is a consultant solicitor with MediaLawyer in Dublin 14 with a focus on independent television/film production, and large-scale music events for television broadcast and live-stream audiences. A former law lecturer at the University of Limerick, Simon is a member, as songwriter, of IMRO and Mechanical Copyright Protection Society and, as music producer, of Phonographic Performance Ireland. In addition to his legal roles, he occasionally acts as executive producer on television and film projects for international release. He previously sat on the board of the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre in Naul, County Dublin.

Néstor Romero Clemente

Néstor Romero Clemente is a composer, filmmaker and photographer hailing from Aragón, Spain. He holds a BA in Musicology and History from UCR (Utrecht University) and an MA in Scoring for Film and Visual Media from Pulse College (TU Dublin). As a music composer, he has scored several feature films, series, and documentaries world-wide. Some of his recent scores include the feature film “While The Masters Sleep” (competing in the 2023 San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival), the Netflix original “The Day of The Lord”, Irish documentary “The People There to Catch Us”, music featured in KBS’s “Woman of 9.9 billion”, and TVn’s “The Heavenly Idol”. His music has been performed by ensembles throughout Europe, such as the Zeeuwse Chamber Orchestra, the O’Carolan ensemble, the Apollo Brass ensemble and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Jan Pfitzer

Jan Pfitzer is a Germany-based composer and music producer with a passion for storytelling. His approach to composition seamlessly intertwines a profound appreciation for tradition with a daring eagerness to explore and transcend conventional boundaries. Throughout his career, Jan has composed music for a diverse range of projects, including feature films, documentaries, tv-shows, video games and theatre plays. He holds two Master Degrees in music, studied in Ireland, Germany and Japan and tried to explore as many different musical and sonic worlds as possible.

Garry Schyman

Composer Garry Schyman, one of the world’s most celebrated composers of video game music, is well known for his haunting orchestral scores for the globally acclaimed video games BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. His music has received multiple awards, including top honors for Best Original Score from the British Academy of Film & Television (BAFTA) and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

John Powell

John Powell was catapulted into the realm of A-list composers by displaying an entirely original voice with his oft-referenced scores to the first installment of Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Identity. He has also become the go-to writer for family animated films, scoring such hits as Shrek and Chicken Run (both co-written with Harry Gregson-Williams), Ice Age: The Meltdown, and the first two installments of Kung Fu Panda (co-written with Hans Zimmer).

His infectious score for How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout his career, Powell also collected three Grammy nominations for his scores ranging from sci-fi to family animation. His most recent work includes Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim and Illumination’s Migration directed by Benjamin Renner.

TJ Lindgren

TJ Lindgren is a film composer from Los Angeles and grew up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. After wearing out recordings of the Beethoven Symphonies and the soundtrack to Star Wars as a child (which the library is still very upset about) he attended the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Music, the oldest music conservatory in the United States, which counts among its alumni such notable artists as Philip Glass, Tori Amos and Michael Hedges. He has composed music for everything from Hollywood blockbusters (Transformers, Avengers, Justice League) to Oscar winning and nominated movies (Argo, Alice in Wonderland, Wanted) to classic animation films (The Grinch, Robots, Frankenweenie) as well as iconic action films including The Bourne Identity, Men in Black and Terminator franchises.

TJ has had the great fortune of collaborating with some of the finest A-List composers in the industry including Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat and John Williams (who doesn’t know about the record). He is also an accomplished pianist and has played on movie soundtracks such as The Bourne Identity, Silver Linings Playbook, The Italian Job and Fifty Shades of Grey where he was the pianist behind Christian Grey’s on-screen performances as well as the classical piano arrangements. You can hear him play electric cello on the upcoming third season of Vikings Valhalla premiering in 2024.

Richard Bellis

Richard Bellis is an Emmy award-winning composer; author of “The Emerging Film Composer: An Introduction to the People, Problems and Psychology of the Film Music Business”; is a past president of the Society of Composers & Lyricists; served on the faculty of the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television course and UCLA Extension’s Film Scoring Certificate program: served on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and for 21 years was host/mentor of the “ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis”.

Jeff Atmajian

Jeff Atmajian is a highly sought after arranger and orchestrator for films. He has worked with many successful composers such as James Newton Howard, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Marc Shaiman, Rachel Portman and Gabriel Yared. Notable projects include Joker, Judy, The Mandalorian, Fantastic Beasts, Mother!, The Hunger Games and many more.