Pippa Murphy

Pippa Murphy is an award-winning composer, sound designer and music producer who scores for theatre, dance, film, TV, choirs and orchestras. Known for her stylistic breadth, she works with writers, film-makers and choreographers as well as Folk, Indie, Jazz and Classical musicians.

Recent theatre credits: Truth’s a Dog (Tim Crouch, Lyceum Edinburgh), Enough of Him (NTS, Pitlochry Theatre); Orphans (National Theatre of Scotland); Streetcar Named Desire (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (Edinburgh International Festival, Royal Court, National Theatre Scotland & Tim Crouch); Lost at Sea (Perth Horsecross); Red Lion (Rapture Theatre);  Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep); Crude (Grid Iron); Gilt (7:84); Strangers Babies (Traverse Theatre); and Standing Wave: Delia Derbyshire (Tron Theatre Glasgow).

Her sound design for Karine Polwart’s Wind Resistance won the CATS Awards for Best Music & Sound 2018, and their album Pocket of Wind Resistance was nominated for BBC Folk Album of the Year 2018. 

Pippa was classically trained on piano, violin and percussion from an early age and completed her BMus, MA and PhD in composition at The University of Birmingham. She was Artist in Residence at the Scottish Parliament (2014) and Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (2020). She composed Anamchara with writer Alexander McCall Smith as part of the Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow.