Rhian Sheehan

Rhian Sheehan is a New Zealand (Aotearoa) born screen-composer. His work is diverse, actively writing scores for a wide variety of film, television, documentary, games, trailers, advertising, multi-media exhibits, and 360o Fulldome Planetarium dome shows, and even the music for a state-of-the-art Roller Coaster ride. He has written music featured on many notable TV shows including Top Gear (UK), the hit HBO series Silicon Valley, America's Got Talent, and channels BBC Horizon, CNN, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Netflix, and has written music featured during The US Super Bowl, and The Academy Awards. He has written scores for numerous UK and US produced 360o Fulldome 3D Planetarium shows, most notably, CapCom Go! The Apollo Story, We Are Astronomers (narrated by David Tennant), We Are Aliens (narrated by Rupert Grint), We Are Stars (narrated by Andy Serkis, and for which Sheehan was awarded Best Original Score at the Fiske Planetarium Awards), and Back To The Moon For Good, which was produced by Google XPRIZE, the UK National Space Centre, and Robert K. Weiss (producer of The Blues Brothers). Narrated by Tim Allen (Toy Story), Back To The Moon For Good is one of the most popular and watched Planetarium Dome shows ever made; having screened in over 450 Planetariums around the world. Sheehan has composed music featured in various multimedia installations and exhibits around the world, including UK's National Space Centre, The Kennedy Space Center, London's Natural History Museum, Ferrari World, World of WearableArt , and Weta Workshop. His score for the 12-part prime-time series The Cult won him a Qantas Film & TV Award (Best original music in a TV series), and he also wrote the score for the Emmy Award winning series Reservoir Hill. Sheehan's music was used extensively during NBC's prime-time coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, and he has written music featured in a variety of commercials, including spots for Google, Nike, GoPro, American Express, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Facebook. He has written for Hans Zimmer's custom music company Bleeding Fingers and Extreme Music. Sheehan wrote and produced the score for the acclaimed feature-length documentary film Belief: The possession of Janet Moses, and more recently scored the mixed-reality AR steampunk inspired robot shooting game, Dr. Grordbort Invaders, starring Stephen Fry, Rhys Darby & Lucy Lawless, and produced by Magic Leap & Weta Workshop (Peter Jackson & Richard Taylor's award-winning special effects and prop company).