DIE HEXEN is an Irish Academy Award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and sound artist known for crafting dark, bold and unforgettable scores that blur the line between music and sound design.

Their breakthrough score for Fréwaka (2024) won “Best Original Music” at both the Irish Academy Awards and SITGES. Variety praised its “imaginative, offbeat” quality, deeming HEXEN “integral” to a new wave of Irish horror “steeped in women’s history.” The score was further acclaimed by The New York Times, describing it as sounding “like Satan’s playlist,” and filmmaker Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher), who lauded its “wicked tone.”

Critics such as Mark Kermode have called HEXEN’s wider body of work “brilliantly indescribable,” comparing them to composers like Mica Levi and Krzysztof Penderecki. Mentored by Grammy-winning engineer Geoff Foster, HEXEN weaves avant-garde orchestration and electronic textures throughout their work, with a sonic palette that spans Bronze Age horns, quartz crystal percussion, and the world’s only black Apprehension Engine (“The Nightmare Machine”).

Other notable credits include: Their score for the BBC/Virgin Media's Video Nasty (2025), which won “Best Original Music” at the Royal Television Society NI Awards: Inside, the Valley Sings (2024), an Oscar-longlisted short documentary about solitary confinement; Double Blind (2023), the IFTA-nominated horror thriller; and You Are Not My Mother (2021), Kate Dolan's IFTA-nominated folk horror. HEXEN is the first non-male to win the Irish Academy Award and SITGES for scoring a feature film.

“An imaginative, offbeat score by avant-garde musician Die Hexen, heavy on chattering percussion, keeps us tense in our seats” -- Guy Lodge, Variety (reviewing Fréwaka)

RECENT CREDITS

Video Nasty (2025, dir. Christopher Smith)

Fréwaka (2024, dir. Aislinn Clarke)

Inside, The Valley Sings (2024, dir. Nathan Fagan)

Double Blind (2023, dir. Ian Hunt-Duffy)

You Are Not My Mother (2021, dir. Kate Dolan)

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Winner of The Irish Film & Television Academy Award 2025 | “Best Original Music" for Fréwaka

Winner of The RTS Award 2025 | "Best Original Music" for VIDEO NASTY (BBC, Virgin Media, WDR Series X6)

Winner of the SITGES Film Festival Award 2024 (in the SOFC) | “Best Original Music" for Fréwaka

Nominated for Music & Sound Award 2025 | "Best Original Music" | for Fréwaka

Nominated for The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for Double Blind

Nominated for The Irish Film & Television Academy Award | “Best Original Music" for You Are Not My Mother

Four-times Oscar long-listed for Inside, The Valley Sings; Lamb; Saul & I; and Stigma.