Natasa Paulberg
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 and Best Music Award from the International Sound & Film Music Festival for The Hunger, and has been nominated for two Jerry Goldsmith Awards in music for film and advertising. Natasa's piece Atomic Hope, performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, was premiered at the New Music Dublin 2021 festival and the documentary feature was premiered at HotDocs 2022. Natasa also scored the RTÉ series' The Island and The Irish Civil War, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, in 2022.
Natasa Paulberg was winner of the Contemporary Music Centre’s 2012 Ad Astra Composition Competition, and received the 2013 Fulbright scholarship for composition, where she attended UCLA’s Film Scoring Program in Los Angeles. Natasa has worked on Los Angeles projects with composers Garry Schyman (The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, Bioshock Infinite) and Christopher Young (Gods Behaving Badly, A Madea Christmas) and with orchestrator Peter Bateman. She has also written music for concert commissions with performances at The National Concert Hall, Samuel Beckett Theater, Smock Alley Theatre and the Cork Opera House. Her piece A Star was included on UCD Choral Scholars Perpetual Twilight CD (2019).
Natasa's works have been performed by Los Angeles studio musicians and at many exhibitions and festivals worldwide including the York New Music Festival (UK), New Music Dublin Festival (IRL) and in Washington DC as part of the Capital Irish Film Festival. Natasa also has an interest in promoting film and game music and conducted and arranged the Pixels (2014) audiovisual concert with Téada Orchestra, which presented game music from Bioshock, Final Fantasy and Journey. She also curated and arranged the Minimal Film (2016) film music concert, which showcased minimalist inspired film scores from Philip Glass (The Hours) and Michael Nyman (The Piano), as well as premiered the Butterfly film suite, composed by Natasa for the documentary Butterfly (2014), which reflects her own neoclassical, postminimalist compositional style.
Natasa is represented by Defiant Talent Management and Oticons Agency in Europe.