Meet your composer

Rory pursues music composition and the moving image with enthusiasm for the magic interrelationship between them. No score gets past his keen listening without interpretation; no image passes his eyes without his head filling with music to match. His greatest joy is a collaboration with other creative people to realize an idea to completion. 

An American Composer for Film TV and Games

What do you need?

It all begins with an idea. Whatever it is, the music can make all the difference.

Rory is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Theory and Composition for Film, TV, and Games. He is a percussionist on drums, bass, and guitar, and plays piano. He has performed in the pit for rock musicals, subbed for professional swing bands, participated in festivals, and scored award-winning short films. However, you are most likely to find him at his home studio composing music with his cat, Yuuki, in his lap.

Rory is actively seeking new and exciting projects to co-create with animators, directors, and game makers. He is adept at arranging, transposing, as well as writing original compositions in many styles and genres.  He is an avid student of the art of moviemaking and skilled in film editing. He has written for video games and enjoys playing them as well. Rory is equally at home deferring to and supporting someone else’s vision, or offering up his own unique ideas.

Contact me

Let me know you looked at my site. Did you listen to the audio clips? Was there something you liked? Do you need something different? The possibilities are endless.

Rory Donnelly composer arranger for movies, television, and video games