Ronan Coleman has worked as a composer in Ireland and New York for over a decade. His music is featured internationally in advertising, film and television.

Recent commissions include campaigns for Betty Crocker 'Warm Delights' (Campbell Mithun), Friskies 'Indoor Delights', 'Signature Blend', 'Seafood Sensations' and 'Feline Favorites' (Avrett, Free, Ginsberg), Emirates Airlines and a brand new reality show for TruTV 'Personal Convictions'.

In 2007, Coleman put the finishing touches to the score of 'Pennhurst', a feature length documentary film chronicling the stories of the many people whose lives are irrevocably intertwined with the difficult history of the Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Pennsylvania, USA.

The Emmy Nominated 'Last Days On Earth' for ABC aired in late August 2006, marking his first musical score for a major US network and placing him in the top ranks of television composers in the US. In the fall, he followed this success with the theme to a brand new show for the Discovery Channel, 'I Fought The Law'.

In the summer of 2004 he scored the award winning film 'Hoodwink' (dir: Adam Feinstein) for the US launch of Volvo's all new V50.

TV programs include the score to 'Faraway Up Close', a landmark documentary series from award winning director Kim Bartley and the theme tune to Television Jamaica's largest ever production, 'Rising Stars' broke all ratings records for viewership. In addition, Coleman composed the score for RTE's six part series on European enlargement entitled 'Europe: The New Frontier' and a thirteen part series journeying down the Mississippi for TG4 Ireland.

His long standing relationship with documentary makers, Ruán Magan of Create One/Wonderland and writer and broadcaster, Manchán Magan, has seen Coleman develop the unique musical identity of the Global Nomad series of TV documentaries that have received critical and commercial acclaim in Ireland and which are currently being distributed worldwide through Beyond Distribution.

Collaboration with visual artist Laura Gannon funded by The Arts Council of Ireland, culminated in 'Wordsong' opening at The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in March 2003. The documentary film of 'Riverdance in China' produced in March 2004, also features a number of Coleman's compositions.

Born in Dublin in 1967, Coleman’s first compositions were publicly performed in 1984 at Glenstal Abbey, home to a community of Benedictine monks whose practice of Gregorian chant as a classical part of the Benedictine monastic experience proved formative in sharpening Coleman's focus on the importance of voice and chant in music. Thereafter, he went on to study at The Royal College of Music in Dublin taking voice as his primary instrument.

He co-founded the avant-garde funk-rock band 'The Malchicks' in the early 90s that performed on national radio and television and played to packed houses on the national circuit. In a move to further explore the possibilities of music production and sound design he began writing music for advertising in 1994 and was commissioned by clients including Independent News and Media PLC, Irish Distillers PLC, Lufthansa Airlines and The European Environmental Agency. His more experimental works are featured in short films such as the Arts Council of Ireland funded documentary 'Bridges' and public art commissions entitled 'Underswim' and 'Wordsong'.

He lives in New York and is currently finishing off production on Jasper James' debut solo album. Coleman continues to foster a number of pet projects including an album that fuses electronica with vocal and instrumental recordings of indigenous, minority communities culled from his travels throughout Africa, China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

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