Eimear Noone

Eímear Noone is young Irish composer/conductor resident in Malibu California.

She has been fortunate enough to have a varied and versatile career to date spanning Classical repertoire, film scores, video game scores, movie trailers and pop/rock recording.

In the past four months alone she has completed the score to feature film, “The Donner Party” starring Crispin Glover and produced by John Emerson Moore; conducted Oscar Nominee Javier Navarrete’s (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) score to “The New Daughter” starring Kevin Costner and Orchestrated Navarrete’s score to “The Hole” directed by Joe Dante of “Gremlins” fame.

Mirrors, starring Kiefer Sutherland

In 2008 she orchestrated Navarrete’s score to “Mirrors” starring Keifer Sutherland.

As a composer she also scored the enchanting Irish Film Board short film “Colder” by filmmaker JJ Harrington.

In 2007 Eímear had the pleasure of conducting the orchestra for the Los Angeles Ballet in their inaugural production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”.  The LA Times said of the performance:

“…the score was again given loving care by Eímear Noone and her orchestra”

(Los Angeles Ballet) – L. Segal – The L.A. Times, January 2007

As an orchestrater her work has been performed on several occasions at the Hollywood Bowl and has been recorded at Capitol Records, Twentieth Century Fox, Skywalker Ranch and Abbey Road to name a few.  Her work has been performed and/or recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, The Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic, The Seattle Symphony Orchestra and The Dublin City Concert Orchestra as well as some of the finest studio orchestras in Los Angeles.

She orchestrated and conducted on the mega-hit video game “World of Warcraft” – which has an average of 12 million players on-line every day – and recently conducted the score to the latest installment in the “Starcraft” series from the makers of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Games.  She recorded the score at Skywalker Ranch with members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Ballet.

“Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty” is due to be launched in 2010.

Additionally, her orchestrations have also appeared in the trailers for “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and “Arthur and the Invisibles” and in the secondary theme on “Britain’s Got Talent” and  “America’s Got Talent”.

For four years Eímear conducted and composed for the Dublin City Concert Orchestra, an ensemble she set up for the performance and promotion of film music.  The three honorary patrons of the orchestra were John Boorman, Elmer Bernstein and Noel Pearson.  The orchestra and symphonic chorus had a sell out series of film-score/Classical Repertoire concerts at the National Concert Hall Dublin and garnered much attention from the Irish national press.

The Irish Independent described her debut  performance thus

“In one movement the audience rose to its feet in a standing ovation reminiscent of Riverdance.  It was magic, the response of the audience…….people left exhilarated and in tears.  This was the culmination of the vision and unflinching belief of two gifted Irish women” 

- Irish Independent Weekend magazine June 16th 2001

As an educator she teaches for the film-scoring departments at UCLA Extension and Columbia College Chicago (semester in LA graduate program) and also gives seminars on conducting to picture for the Society of Composers and Lyricists in Los Angeles.  Among her private students are a number of Grammy, BMI, ASCAP and Emmy winning composers – including one of last year’s Grammy nominees for best performance in conducting.

She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama the ASCAP Filmscoring Workshop and was a featured composer at Robert Redford’s Moonstone International Filmmakers’ Lab. She also participated in conducting masterclasses at the Manhattan School of Music.

Currently Eimear is an executive on the board of the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival, acting additionally as music director for the festival.  She was commissioned by the festival to compose a score for a 1920s Irish silent film, “In the Days of St. Patrick” which opened the LAIFF in September 2009.