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. 

A Contemporary Composer for Film, TV, and Games

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Rory is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a Bachelor's in Composition for Film, TV, and Games, and is currently pursuing his Master’s. He studied in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, gaining valuable experience with live orchestral recording. He is also a musician in his own right on drums, guitar, and piano. He has performed in the pit for rock musicals, subbed for professional swing bands, participated in jazz festivals, and scored award-winning short films.

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

Credits

Rubber (2015) (Comedy) Writer, Editor
Winner: Best Comedy

Hide and Seek (2015) (Drama) Composer, Sound Design Winner: Best Director

Charlie and Creature (2017) (Animated Fantasy) Composer

The Other Me (2023) (Horror) Composer

I’ll Take You With Me (2026) (Gothic Drama) Composer

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