Irish composer, pianist, and producer Sarah Power has released her debut EP, In The Shadows, marking her first major step into the spotlight after more than a decade shaping soundtracks and performances from behind the scenes.
Known for her atmospheric blend of felted piano, strings, and subtle electronic textures, Power has spent years crafting music for internationally recognised film and television projects. Her screen credits include work as Assistant Composer on This Town (BBC – Steven Knight), Swift Justice (The New Yorker – Emmy-nominated documentary short), The Boy That Never Was (RTÉ), and The Diplomat (Alibi TV). She recently contributed as Composer / Additional Music on RTÉ’s These Sacred Vows (2025), and served as Composer on Irish Baba and the Canadian feature The Delicate Art of Puppetry. Her production music has also been heard worldwide in programmes such as College Gameday and Top Chef.
Before turning her focus fully to composition, Power toured internationally as a pianist and producer with Irish artist Stephanie Rainey—performing at America’s Got Talent (2024 Quarter-Finals), Electric Picnic, Malahide Castle, The Marquee, the Lord Mayor’s Ball with the Cork Symphony Orchestra, and on a German and Dutch tour supporting Pa Sheehy (Walking on Cars). These experiences now inform the emotional sensitivity and cinematic awareness at the heart of her writing.
Recorded between Treehouse Studios in County Wicklow and Power’s home studio in Dublin, In The Shadows is a deeply personal body of work that captures “the space between stillness and movement, intimacy and scale.” Across the EP, tactile piano tones meet layered strings and evolving textures, drawing inspiration from artists such as Hania Rani, Ólafur Arnalds, and Dustin O’Halloran.
The project also represents a significant artistic shift. After years helping to build other people’s stories, Power turns inward—exploring what it means to claim space as a composer in her own right.
“In The Shadows came from a really personal place,” Power says. “I’ve spent years working behind the scenes on other people’s projects, and this EP was my way of stepping out and claiming a bit of space for myself. They’re deeply personal pieces that mark me defining myself as a composer—a quiet record, but a real turning point.”
The title track serves as the emotional centre of the EP—an unfolding, slow-burn piece built around a recurring motif.
With In The Shadows, Sarah Power steps forward not only with a debut, but with a statement—an intimate, cinematic introduction to a composer ready to be heard in her own right.
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