Sarah Lynch is an Irish award-winning composer whose vivid and emotionally rich scores have brought life to an array of films, television series, documentaries, commercials, and games.
She is best known for her work on Element Pictures’ BAFTA Craft–nominated series The Dry, written by Nancy Harris and directed by Paddy Breathnach, for which she won the Irish Film and Television Award for Original Music, with Season 3 currently in production. She is also currently scoring Tall Tales & Murder (BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ) co-created and directed by double Emmy and Directors Guild of America Award winner Chris Addison (Veep, Breeders, The Thick of It).

Other recent work includes the five-part thriller Missed Call, which she has just completed, directed by Sheree Folkson and produced by Pernel Media for ITV Studios. The series is led by Joanna Scanlan (Slow Horses) and features an international ensemble cast including Rupert Graves and Robert Lindsay.

Past projects of Sarah’s include Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, the acclaimed Magnolia Pictures documentary, which takes an intimate and unflinching look at the legendary folk singer’s life, activism, and musical journey. Its “gorgeous musical score” (The Washington Post) was praised for its spellbinding atmosphere; The Unreal, a four-part family series for RTÉ; the feature documentary George Platt Lynes, about the celebrated American photographer known for his provocative and highly stylized portraits of male nudes in the early 20th century.

A collaborator with composer Stephen Rennicks, Sarah has contributed to major projects such as Death of a Ladies’ Man, starring Gabriel Byrne, and the Bafta-winning, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated BBC3/Hulu series Normal People. 

A classically trained violinist and pianist with a background in traditional and folk music, Sarah seamlessly blends her roots in folk, experimental, and rock music into scores that are both intuitive and strikingly dynamic.

Beyond composing, Sarah has performed and recorded with renowned artists including Hozier, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Glen Hansard, Paul Brady, Shane McGowan, Mundy, Mumford and Sons, and Ed Sheeran. She has also worked closely with many celebrated Irish artists, arranging music for legends such as Mary Black and John Sheahan.

Sarah’s work has been widely recognized. In 2019, she was selected as one of just 12 composers worldwide for the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, culminating in a 65-piece orchestral session at Fox Studios. That same year, she received the Michelle and Dean Kay Award at the Lincoln Center in New York from the ASCAP Foundation. Her compositions have earned nominations for the Peer Rabin Music Award at Soundtrack Cologne and the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Transient Thoughts. Sarah is represented by Juliet Martin at Silverstream Music.