Rori Coleman is a composer, arranger, producer and songwriter. His music, songs and arrangements can be heard in various films and productions worldwide. He has produced music for Bono & Stevie Wonder, arranged music for Spider-Man The Musical on Broadway and co-written with Kevin Godley (10CC and Godley & Creme) for his 'Muscle Memory' Album.
Recent work includes, scoring TV animation series Cat and Keet (2024), feature film 'Conni - Secret of Mau the Cat' (No.1 at the German Box Office July 2020).
Alongside Dan Oestreicher and Yirmayah Yisrael, Rori was a part of the brass band on ‘Red Hill Mining Town’ from U2s ‘Songs of Surrender’ album (2023).
Together with his brother Ronan he is co-founder of Edgar Loop, one of their songs ‘Sky Burial’ can be heard in the 2024 documentary ‘The Cable that Changed the World’. Rori is also a co-founder of Performing For Presidents (PFP) who co-wrote rising star Tolu Makay’s debut EP.
He is an alumnus of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and a member of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland.
FILM and TELEVISION
Cat and Keet (2024)
174 episodes November 2022 - June 2024
Telegael and Toonz Entertainment
Conni - Secret of Mau the Cat
Youngfilms 2020
Director: Ansgar Niebuhr
Written by: Nana A. Meyer, Jens Urban, Liane Scheidner
Produced by: Youngfilms, Senator Film, Traumhaus Studios and Telegael
My Mother's Shoes
Director: Mike Hayes
Produced by: Alice productions
Juggle
Director: Jake McKone
Writer: Jake McKone
Hudson Link
Director: Gregory Kennedy
Produced by: Innerfilm
Nowhere Fast 2017
Director: Simon Gibney (Horrible Histories Winner - International Emmy 2017/Bull for UKTV)
Written by: Simon Mulholland, Alison Spittle, Cian McGarrigle
Produced by: Paul Donovan, Ailish McElmeel, Ailish Bracken
Starring: Alison Spittle, Clare Monnelly, Genevieve Hulme Beaman
The Suffering Kind
Director: Kevin Liddy
Writer: Kevin Liddy
Produced by: Eye Hatch Films and Igloo Films
Cinematography by: Declan Quinn (Rachel Getting Married, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Leaving Las Vegas)
Starring: Keith Leonard, Reagan Bongiorno, Vahe Katros, Edward and Joe James
Winner of The Spirit of IndieCork Award at the IndieCork Film Festival October 2014
Coming Home
Director: Viko Nikci
Produced by: Welcome Home Pictures in association with Samson Films and the Irish Film Board
Starring: Angel Cordero
Winner of the Best Irish Feature Documentary and Best Human Rights Documentary in association with Amnesty International at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh 2013
Rough Cut
Director: Laura Way
Speed Trap
Director: Jake McKone
Starring: Jonathon Hawtrey Clark, Paul Courtney, Jenny Dixon
Patsy Dick
Director: Kevin de la Isla O'Neill
Produced by: 925 Productions
Starring: Clodagh Downing
Winner of the special prize at the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 2013
Keys to the City
Directors: Christopher Brennan, Mel Cannon, Laura Way
Written by: James Fair, Conor Horgan, Conor McDermottroe
Produced by: Peter Bodie, James Fair, Alan Fitzpatrick, Trisha Flood
Starring Rory Keenan, Natalia Kostrzewa, Karl Argue, Conor Mullen, Una Kavanagh, Ronan Wilmot, David Murray, Art Kearns, Ger Ryan
Jonny Boy
Director: Laura Way
Starring: Jon Polito (The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink), Ronan Wilmot, Irene Wright
Sugarstick
Director: Laura Way
Starring: Alan Corcoran, Kathleen Tierney, Irene Wright
A winner at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival 2009 and The Slamdance Film Festival
Strange Days are these
Director: Jake McKone
(Music co-scored with Dawn Kenny)
Short Order
Director Anthony Byrne
Produced by: Igloo Films
Starring: Emma de Caunes, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Jack Dee and Rade Serbedzija
Additional music by Rori Coleman
Imigh le Sruth
Documentary TG4
Global Nomad China
Documentary TG4 & RTE
Produced by: Wonderland Ltd.
Additional music by Rori Coleman
Global Nomad Middle East
Documentary TG4 & RTE
Additional music by Rori Coleman
Nasc Greenland
Documentary TG4
Produced by: Create One
An Decay
Directed by: Traolach O'Buachalla
Produced by: Mint Productions
Manchán Tenerife TG4
Documentary TG4
Produced by: Create One
Manchan USA
Documentary TG4
Produced by: Create One
CO-WRITING, PRODUCTION & ARRANGING
'The Cable that Changed the World'
2024 Documentary directed by Ruán Magan
'Sky Burial'
written by Rori and Ronan Coleman A.K.A. Edgar Loop. An instrumental version of the song can be heard in the documentary.
U2 Songs Of Surrender
Rori contributed programmed brass to 'Red Hill Mining Town' from 'Songs of Surrender' the new U2 record. The record was released on 17th March 2023 on Island Records and Interscope Records.
'Being'
Tolü Makay's debut EP August 2020 - co-written and produced by performing For presidents (PFP) including the singles 'Don't let go' and 'You are enough'.
'Cut to the Cat'
Co-written with Kevin Godley (Godley & Creme and 10cc) for his 'Muscle Memory' Album 2020
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Director: Julie Taymor
Music by: Bono & The Edge
Additional arrangements and vocal arrangements - Rori Coleman
'The Death by Fire of Giordano Bruno'
An opera by Roger Doyle
Engineer for vocal and percussion recordings
'Should have been gone'
Written by: Preacher's Son from their 'Love, Life and Limb' Album
String arrangement by Rori Coleman
'Love's in need of love today'
Written by Stevie Wonder, performed by Bono and Stevie Wonder for the Feature Documentary Film 'Darfur Now' 2008
Rori Coleman - co-producer and guitarist
'I am the Blues'
Written by Bono and Simon Carmody from Johnny Hallyday's 2008 Album 'Le Coeur d'un Homme'
Rori Coleman - Recording engineer
'Invocation'
The debut album by classical guitarist Michael O'Toole
Rori Coleman - co-producer and recording engineer
'Adolf Gebler, Clarinettist'
Written by Roger Doyle from his 'Cool Steel Army' Album
Rori Coleman - co-producer, engineer and Vienna Orchestral Instruments programming
COMMERCIALS
Bord na Móna
Naturally Driven - Video and radio commercial 2016/2017
Agency Chemistry
Fáilte Ireland 'Ireland's Ancient East'
Fáilte Ireland campaign April 2015
Agency In the Company of Huskies
NIC+ZOE
NIC+ZOE Spring campaign 2015
Slim Pasta
Eat Water - Advertising campaign
Produced by: Pinnacle productions
Lufthansa Airlines
Corporate video - 2000
Independent News and Media Group
Corporate video - 2000
European Environment Agency
Corporate video - 2000