Natasa Paulberg – Film Composer
Natasa Paulberg is an award-winning Australian/Irish composer with compositions for the concert hall, television, film, advertising and gaming.
Natasa has scored many projects including the acclaimed The Hunger documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, and performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, the National Australia Bank What do you want? advertising campaign and Screen Ireland’s Irish Stories on Screen promotional trailer. She has won two Best Original Score awards for the film The Yellow Dress, Best Original Score and Best Music Award from the International Sound & Film Music Festival for The Hunger, and has been nominated for two Jerry Goldsmith Awards in music for film and advertising.
Natasa’s piece Atomic Hope, performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, was premiered at the New Music Dublin 2021 festival and the documentary feature premiered at HotDocs in 2022. Natasa also scored the RTÉ series’ The Island narrated by Liz Bonnin, and The Irish Civil War narrated by Brendan Gleeson, in 2022.
Natasa obtained her M.Phil in Music and Media Technologies and PhD in composition and music technology at Trinity College Dublin, and received the 2013 Fulbright scholarship for composition, where she attended UCLA’s Film Scoring Program in Los Angeles.