Meena Shamaly

Meena Shamaly is a composer, session musician, poet, lecturer, and radio presenter. He is the host of ABC Classic’s Game Show, exploring video game music on the radio, and he also presents live game music performances, such as the Indie Symphony series by Orchestra Victoria and the Press Play concert by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Meena is the composer of Innchanted (DragonBear Studios) and Every Hue of You (Cactus Jam Games), for which he and his co-composer Natalie Jeffreys were nominated in the category of ‘Best Music for a Video Game or Other Interactive Media’ at the 2024 APRA/AMCOS Screen Music Awards.

As a performer, Meena contributes vocals and oud on Christopher Tin’s Grammy-nominated game score to Old World and he has sung for Ian Livingstone and Ed Watkins on the game Total War: Pharaoh, Kevin Penkin on the anime series Made in Abyss, and more. His other screen work includes performing piano for the Australian film The Legend of Ben Hall, as well as having his compositions licensed for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Dropout (formerly Collegehumor), Discovery Channel, and WWE.

On the live stage, Meena regularly creates music and performs on projects that span the worlds of theatre, poetry, and spoken word. He was a cast member and musician in the critically acclaimed play THEM, by Samah Sabawi, and his work with Camille El Feghali on the immersive theatre production Zaffé, by Stephanie Ghajar, won for Best Sound Design and Composition at the 2024 Green Room Awards.