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Hugh Rodgers recently completed the score to feature documentary, Mrs Robinson (Loosehorse Films/Breakout Pictures) on the life and times of Ireland’s first female president and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. It premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2024 and had a successful nationwide cinema run, becoming the best performing Irish Documentary at the Irish box office in years. The score was written with Ray Harman, who Hugh previously collaborated with on the 2014 feature documentary, One Million Dubliners (Underground Films), and features the prodigious talents of violinist Cora Venus Lunny.
Hugh is also a performer and recording artist with the band A Dark Horse, whose debut release was praised far and wide as “a sound that is compelling, dense and dreamy” (Seattle Weekly), “cinematic, lush and ambitious” (State Magazine) and “one of the most accomplished and exciting debuts” (Hot Press). Last year he co-produced and performed on GALVO’s alt. folk album The Heartist, a “grandiose and spellbinding debut” (Goo Magazine), and he is currently putting the finishing touches on a new 14 track album by A Dark Horse set for release in 2025.
In 2022 Hugh collaborated with fellow composer Michael Fleming on the score to the genre-bending ReelArts feature documentary, How To Tell A Secret (Invisible Thread Films), about living with HIV in Ireland. The film screened at dozens of international festivals, was nominated for the George Morrisson at IFTA, and is available to stream on Netflix. Hugh’s atmospheric score to artist Vittoria Colonna’s dreamy short drama Sandboy, (Underground Films) set in the Californian desert, won Best Score at the Moondance Film Festival and was praised for its emotional power by the Executive Producer, Julian Lennon. He has also written music for commercials for brands such as Budweiser, Eir, Keelings and Chadwicks.
Selected Credits
Mrs Robinson (2024)
How To Tell A Secret (2022)
When Women Won (2020)
Strange Occurrences In A Small Irish Village (2016)
One Million Dubliners (2014)
Somebody To Love (2014)