Music for Screen in Ireland:
The Republic of Ireland has one of the most attractive tax incentives for film and TV, animation and creative documentary production in Europe with up to 35% tax credit available on all eligible Irish expenditure including music department. Productions filming and bringing music department to Northern Ireland can avail of UK tax incentives as well as Northern Irish specific production funding which supports local composer hire from Northern Ireland Screen.
With a rich cultural heritage in music composition and performance, the Island of Ireland has a wealth of talent in composing and production of original score and has a number of world class orchestras and performance ensembles available for recording. Our members have recently scored music for TV series; Hulu’s “Normal People”, , Britbox “The Dry”, Acorn TV’s “Harry Wilde”, ITV’s “Man Hunt” and Alibi and RTÉ “Smother” as well as Oscar winning feature “Room” , the Oscar nominated trilogy Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells and the Emmy winning documentary “The Farthest” along with many more award winning films.
To learn more about Music for Screen in Ireland, talent and infrastructure, please get in touch by email.
Composing for Animation
The Irish Animation Industry has grown substantially in the past 10 years with over thirty studios operating in Ireland creating and servicing new animation projects. Irish composers for screen have responded and grown their skill base to excel in this area of media music. SCGI members are creating original music for feature, episodic, shorts and pilot animation. We have a number of members working at an international level composing original music and songs for award winning and household favourites including; Octonauts, Jessy and Nessy, Claude, Lucky Fred, Wolfwalkers, Two by Two and many more. To learn more about SCGI members working in Animation please visit our Composer Directory and watch the showreel below.
SCGI Composer Assistant Bursary
In 2021 SCGI created a composer assistant bursary to allow composers attached to an Irish produced or co-produced feature or TV series access a skilled composer assistant for up to 6 weeks without cost to the composer or the production. This has proved very sucessful to date with a number of productions availing of the scheme and emerging composers accessing on the job experience and in some cases professional music department credits. The scheme is continuing to run and producers or composer can apply. For more information please email sarah@screencomposersguild.ie