Emer Landers is an Irish composer writing music for film, television, and video games.
Inspired by thematic film scoring and her background in musical theatre, she composes melodically driven scores ranging from solo piano to full orchestra, occasionally infused with electronic and synth elements. Her recent work includes the RTÉ Storyland drama The Ick, featuring an original score under consideration for Best Original Music at the 2026 IFTA Film & Drama Awards.
Her score for Jason Branagan’s Forever Hold Your Peace received a nomination for Best Score at the Underground Film Awards 2022 and the Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival 2023. She also collaborated with a team of BAFTA Crew alumni on Bach is Blue, which premiered at Latitude Festival in 2021.
Emer won Third Prize at the International Pannonia Film Music Competition in 2020 and has had her music performed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She has contributed to production music albums for West One Music Group, JW Media Music, Little Wren Music, Felt Production Music and Atomica Music, resulting in placements across platforms including Disney+, CBeebies, ESPN, NBC Sports, Sky, NFL, Great American Family and France 3.
Her screen credits include scoring video game titles such as Universal Monsters Online, Dark Orbit and Uridium Wars for Bigpoint Inc., as well as Forge by Dark Vale Games. She has also written original songs for animation with WildBrain Spark.
Emer continues to expand her work internationally and enjoys collaborating across a wide range of genres. She is a member of IFTA and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland. She works as a tutor with Thinkspace Education, and holds an MMus in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music, alongside a BA in Music from Trinity College Dublin.
