Amie Doherty

Amie Doherty (born 1987) is an Irish composer. She creates music for movies and television. She is the first woman to write the score for an animated feature for DreamWorks.

Amie Doherty
Birth name	Amie Doherty
Born	Ballinasloe, Ireland
Genres	movie score
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, orchestrator
Instruments	Piano, guitar, violin
Years active	2010–present
Website	https://www.amiedoherty.com/

Influences

Doherty cites Christophe Beck, James Newton Howard, Howard Shore, Alan Menken, Michael Giacchino, Joe Hisaishi, Hans Zimmer, John Powell, Henry Jackman, Harry Gregson-Williams, Thomas Newman, Lorne Balfe, Joseph Trapanese, James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Mychael Danna, Randy Newman, Rachel Portman, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Alfred Newman, Benjamin Wallfisch, Germaine Franco, Koji Kondo, Bruce Broughton, David Newman, Marc Shaiman, Brian Tyler, Bear McCreary, Joel McNeely, J.A.C. Redford, Dave Grusin, Gareth Coker, A.R. Rahman, Lennie Niehaus, George Bruns, Oliver Wallace, Leigh Harline, Frank Churchill, Paul Smith, Max Steiner, Nino Rota, Yoko Shimomura and Buddy Baker as influences.

Career

Doherty moved to the United States in 2013. Before this, she lived, worked and studied music in London, India, Ireland, South Korea, Spain and Vietnam. She graduated magna cum laude from the Masters program in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games at Berklee College of Music. While there, she was awarded the Howard Shore Scholarship. She later moved to Los Angeles where she began to make music for video games and movies.

In 2016, Doherty became a Sundance Composer Fellow. She was chosen from over 500 composers to go to the Sundance Institute Music & Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound. In 2016, After her time at the lab, she became a Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation Composer Fellow.