Tara Creme is a composer working across genres, primarily for film/television, concert and theatre, with her recognition for composing for film coming to the fore through recent work including feature documentaries covering a range of powerful topics for which Tara has provided beautiful, touching, emotive and dramatic original scores. Such films including Seahorse: the Man who Gave Birth; March For Dignity, Your Fat Friend, and Undercover: Exposing the Far Right, controversially pulled from the London Film Festival before premiering on Channel 4.

Further film and tv work covering drama, documentary and animation include composing for Panorama, Barry The Beekeeper, My Friend The Polish Girl, Muslim School, Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother.

Tara specialises in recording with live ensembles and orchestras, often combining electronic elements. Her score for Lotte Reiniger’s Cinderella animation was performed with a live ensemble in Nunhead Cemetry for the Nunhead Film Festival.

Her music for concert is direct and evocative, and is often inspired by other art forms — particularly visual art and poetry —, nature and spiritual/philosophical concepts. Tara has been commissioned for small and large-scale ensembles, collaborating recently with Britten Sinfonia, Hebrides Ensemble and Onyx Brass.

Further, piano suite Approach (2019) was premiered by Charles Owen at New Walk Museum, in a commission for Leicester International Lunchtime Concert Series. She recently won the JAM Presidents Commission for her choral piece Gold from the Stone, following participation in their Masterclass Series with Voces8. This led to a premiere of The Song I Came to Sing in March 2023 for The Choir of Selwyn Chapel, Cambridge, Simon Hogan and Onyx Brass, conducted by Michael Bawtree.

In August 2019 Tara was selected by Wild Plum Arts for a Made at the Red House residency at the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Her theatre work includes the music and sound design for Something Somatic, written by Simon Turley and directed by Jeff Teare for TheatreScience, People are Messy by Theatre of Debate as co-composer, and King Charles III for Tower Theatre. She has also created several music/visual art crossover pieces, as well as provided string arrangements for other artists.

Tara has had her music played on BBC Radio 3, Scala Radio and Soho Radio.

She has sat on the Ivors Academy jury adjudicating music for television, is a BAFTA voting member, a BIFA voter and has taken part on panels / masterclasses for BFI, WFTV and ThinkSpace Education.

Tara is supported by Help Musicians, PRS Foundation and Vaughan Williams Foundation, and this year has received a DYCP grant from the Arts Council for ‘Developing an Oratorio’, leading to a large-scale oratorio about Joan of Arc with Britten Sinfonia and Helen Charlston.