About
IsIshai Adar is an established, award-winning film composer and sound artist known for creating immersive musical identities and narrative-driven sound environments for feature films, documentaries, and television.
Moving beyond conventional scoring templates, Adar’s musical language blurs the boundaries between ambient sound design and musical composition. By integrating concrete textures, analog electronics, and acoustic elements, he approaches sound and score as a unified narrative instrument—shaping distinct sonic worlds that directly reflect the psychological subtext of each film.
Selected Filmography & Scores:
- Shirkers (Dir. Sandi Tan, Netflix) – Winner, Cinema Eye Honors for Outstanding Original Score; Sundance Film Festival Directing Award Winner
- Our Boys (HBO / Keshet, Dirs. Joseph Cedar, Tawfik Abu-Wael, Hagai Levi) – Winner, Israeli Television Academy Award for Best Original Music
- Princess (Dir. Tali Shalom Ezer) – Winner, Haggiag Award for Best Original Music (Jerusalem Film Festival); Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
- Sympathy for the Devil (Dir. Yuval Adler, starring Nicolas Cage) – Feature Film
- CTRL+ALT+DESIRE (Dir. Colin Archdeacon, Paramount+) – Documentary Mini-Series
- Beaufort (Dir. Joseph Cedar) – Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film; Silver Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
- Mr. Gaga (Dir. Tomer Heymann) – Feature Documentary; SXSW Audience Award
- A Film Unfinished (Dir. Yael Hersonski) – Feature Documentary; Sundance World Cinema Editing Award
- Bethlehem (Dir. Yuval Adler) – Venice Days Best Film; Winner of 6 Israeli Academy Awards
Adar’s musical background is rooted in early avant-garde electronic music and alternative rock, beginning as a founding member of the seminal band Nos’ei Hamigbaat. Alongside his film scoring practice, he is a Senior Lecturer in film scoring and sound design at both Sapir Academic College and the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School.
Beyond cinema and performance, Adar consults as an audio architect and sound designer for global technology and automotive corporations (including General Motors, Intel, and emerging tech enterprises), developing auditory UX and proprietary sonic design systems under NDA.