An accomplished screen composer and multi-instrumentalist with an international profile, Giles Packham has been working in the music, film and television industry for over 20 years. He established Waveform Studios in 2002.
Giles specialises in scoring to picture for documentary and animation projects. He has also composed music for other formats including film, television and advertising for national and international clients.
Cinema-release documentary projects include the score for the award-winning feature documentary I, Dolours (2017) and the feel-good feature documentary The Man Who Wanted to Fly (2019).
Recent completed TV documentary work includes Aerial Brittan, Aerial Greece and Sacred Sites Apocalypse and Sacred Sites Women of the Ancient World, all for Smithsonian Channel.
Other work includes title music and score for RTE’s popular The Zoo TV Series and RTE’s 1916 documentary Seven Women (2016) as well as score for the feature documentary Children of the Revolution (2011) and the IFTA-winning BBC-RTE production My Astonishing Self (2017).
His original scores for the Smithsonian Channel documentary Sacred Sites of the World: Egyptian Priestesses (2017) won best score award at the Accolade Global Film Competition in California in November 2018. His original score for the short documentary I Created You … won best sound design at the Culture and Diversity Festival in California in 2019.
Animation projects include score for the Amazon Studios-Jam Media 40-part series Jessy and Nessy (2020); score for the 52-part animation series Tashi (2014 Irish-Australian co-production); score for 26-part animation series Lexi & Lottie (2016 Irish-Australian co-production) and the multi-award winning Irish short animation Paperman (2013). Giles has recently completed work on the score for a 26-part Chinese-Danish animation series.
Giles is a founder member and vice chair of the newly established Screen Composers Guild of Ireland which aims to promote the creative craft of original music composition for screen as a valuable element within the Irish music and audiovisual cultural industries.
Giles studied music composition in Trinity College Dublin where he received an MPhil in Music & Media Technologies in 2000. Since then he has attained a diploma in Film Music Composition with University of California Los Angeles/Screen Training Ireland.