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Award-winning composer Brian Byrne moved to Los Angeles from Ireland in July 2003 to expand his career as a film and television composer. Since then, Brian has consistently worked as a composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger and pianist in the US and in Europe. From orchestral scores to minimal ensemble compositions, Brian has written music for films in many genres. He won the Irish Film and Television Award for his original score for the Irish Sci-Fi comedy Zonad, directed by John Carney. He then scored an indie drama called The Good Doctor, starring Orlando Bloom. Brian’s previous film work includes conducting and arranging the scores to Jim Sheridan’s Oscar-nominated In America and Kristen Sheridan’s drama, Disco Pigs. Most recently, he scored Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close and Mia Wasikowska. Brian has collaborated with such international luminaries as Bono, Barbra Streisand, Katy Perry, Lisa Stansfield, Van Morrison, Sinead O’Connor, Alan Bergman, Ronan Tynan, Luis Miguel, Vince Gill, Gladys Knight, to name a few. He did an orchestral arrangement of Katy Perry’s Fireworks for the Australian Grammy’s, toured with Diane Warren, arranged a song for Sex and the City 2 and played piano on Liza Minnelli’s cover of Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it).You can email your questions to
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