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Niall Byrne

Birthplace:
Dublin, Ireland

Biography from TheMovieDB

Niall studied piano and composition at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He was awarded first prize at the 1992 Dublin film festival's Music awards, chaired by English composer and critic Michael Nyman. Since then Niall has composed music for feature films, animation and many critically acclaimed and award-winning British television drama series including 'The Widower', 'Cilla' and 'Little Boy Blue'. He has received awards from the Irish Arts council, one of which included a series of seminars on film music by Ennio Morricone at the Chigiana Music school in Sienna.  Niall has received several IFTA (Irish Film & Television Awards) nominations and won the award for his score to the BBC film 'Loving Miss Hatto', starring Francesca Annis and Alfred Molina.  In 2017 he received the Venus award at the Badalona Film Festival in Barcelona for his score to the animated film 'The Lost Letter', narrated by Kate Winslet. In 2019, his score for the 26-part animation series 'Peek Zoo' was nominated for Best Score at the Irish Animation Awards.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Music:
1935  Guests of The Nation
1994  Words Upon the Window Pane
2003  Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2005  Trouble with Sex
2007  Damage
2009  Wild Decembers
2010  Parked
2010  Pelican Blood
2011  The Boy in the Bubble
2016  The Lost Letter
2016  The Truth Commissioner

Original Music Composer:
1935  Guests of The Nation
1994  Words Upon the Window Pane
2003  Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2005  Trouble with Sex
2007  Damage
2007  How About You...
2009  Cairo Time
2009  Wild Decembers
2010  Parked
2010  Pelican Blood
2011  The Boy in the Bubble
2012  Loving Miss Hatto
2014  Gold
2016  The Lost Letter
2016  The Truth Commissioner
2018  In Darkness

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TV Production

Music:
2014  Cilla

Original Music Composer:
2014  Cilla
2019  Hatton Garden
2019  Manhunt
2020  White House Farm

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