MUSIC SUPERVISORS

DINA COUGHLAN

Over the last 25+ years Dina has had the opportunity as a music supervisor to work on a dynamic range of projects, including the TV Series 'Mix Tape' for which she was nominated for 'Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama' for the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in the US and recently won the AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) award for 'Best Soundtrack'.  Other notable projects include 'The Apprentice', 'Saipan', 'Evil Dead Rise', the Oscar winning short 'An Irish Goodbye', 'The Young Offenders' (film & tv series), 'The Gone' and the films 'Soulm8te' and 'Skintown'. Dina started her music career as a college radio DJ and soon after started working as a publicist at a number of indie record labels in New York City.  She then segued into music supervision, helping to start the music department at the Oxygen television network where she oversaw music placement for all productions and network initiatives. Additionally, she served as a Producer on the long running concert series ‘Custom Concert’ which featured performances by John Legend, LL Cool J, Alanis Morrissette and Kenny Chesney among others.  Dina is a board member of the UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors.

RORY MCPARTLAND

Rory McPartland is a music supervisor and publisher with over 25 years experience in the industry. Beginning as singer/guitarist for Mike TV, he relocated to New York in 1999 and joined the sync department of EMI Music Publishing. He has also worked with Sony/ATV, Heavy Duty Music and Spirit Music Publishing. Since moving back to Ireland in 2014, Rory continues to focus on sync as the co-founder of Planet Of Sound Music Supervision with recent TV projects including 'Mix Tape', ‘The Young Offenders’, ‘The Gone’ and films including Oscar winning short ‘An Irish Goodbye’, ‘Evil Dead Rise’, ‘The Apprentice’, ‘Four Mothers’ and ‘Saipan’.  Rory is nominated for a Guild of Music Supervisors award in the US for 'Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama' for Mix Tape and was recently awarded an AACTA for 'Best Soundtrack' for the series by the Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts.