Anna Rice
Anna Rice is an IFTA and Camille Award - nominated screen composer, lyricist, arranger and music producer.
Over the past twenty years she has produced her scores, songs and arrangements for a host of acclaimed performers including Lang Lang, Gidon Kremer, Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones), Andrea Corr, Avishai Cohen, Donal Lunny, The Chieftains, Moxie, Cara Dillon, Joseph, Jam Hsiao and Coco Lee. She has written for numerous orchestras worldwide, including the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, the Hallé, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Galaxy Studios Symphony Orchestra as well as all the major performing orchestras on the island of Ireland.
Anna produced, arranged and orchestrated “The Christmas Album” for Andrea Corr, released in 2022. The album reached a solo career-best position in the UK Official Charts for the artist.
Anna's scores and songs can be heard onscreen worldwide, including David Merriman and Jim Sheridan's upcoming feature RE-CREATION (starring Vicky Krieps, Aidan Gillen, John Connors and Colm Meaney) Ruán Magan’s OUR BLUE WORLD - A WATER ODYSSEY, narrated by Liam Neeson (Create One / Blue World Studios), the theme song (lyrics & orchestration) to CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY (The Weinstein Co/Netflix), 'Take Me To Shanghai' (lyrics & orchestration) from THE WASTED TIMES, Ian Hislop's AGE OF THE DO-GOODERS (BBC / Wingspan Productions) and the Abbey Theatre and National Theatre's inaugural collaborative production, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, starring Ciarán Hinds and Sinéad Cusack.
Her score to Gary Lennon's I DREAM IN PHOTOS (Gambit Pictures) has been nominated for the 2024 Camille Awards (European Film Composer Awards) in the category ‘Best Original Score for a Feature Documentary’.
She has scored over two hundred episodes of TV animation and in 2019, she co-founded Ash and Harold - a collaborative music studio focused on the scoring and production of music for animation.
Anna collaborated with Paddy Moloney for over a decade, orchestrating his works for The Chieftains' live concerts worldwide. She worked with acclaimed Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi for many years, orchestrating in 2015 his violin concerto for Gidon Kremer “The Japanese Four Seasons.” She arranged and produced Umebayashi's score for CHIMERICA (Channel 4 / Playground Entertainment), Gordon Chan's GOD OF WAR, the E3 Trailer for Sony Playstation's GHOST OF TSUSHIMA and THE WASTED TIMES (dir. Cheng Er).
Anna is an alumna of The Royal College of Music in London, Trinity College Dublin and the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. She has been a recipient of numerous bursaries and awards including from The Arts Council of Ireland, IMRO and The Bill Whelan Music Bursary.
She has served as a panel judge for the BAFTA TV Awards, Ivor Novello Awards and the Irish Film & Television Awards and on the board of directors of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland.
Anna's music is published by First Name Music and Novello