PopStar Studios

Meet The Team

Dav Nagle - Music Producer

Dav Nagle is the entrepreneur and founder of Pop Star Studios, his company was launched in January 2009. Dav is also an artist manager, executive producer, sound engineer and singer songwriter. A talented blues guitar player with 20 years of experience he has played with celebrities such as Linda Martin (Eurovision song contest winner) and Francis Black (The Black Family) on Irish national television. Dav has a diploma in the performing arts and loves nothing more than creating music with pop artists, hip hop artists and rock bands. Dav has judged many singing competitions such as Dignity X Factor, Anto's X Factor feautring Alexandera Burke, Teen Idol 2009, Teen Idol 2010, Teen Idol 2011, Google X Factor, Acceptable in da 80's Fundraiser and the Karoake championships 2010/2011. Dav programs music and is a very clean editor but spends most of his time writing, recording and mixing using Logic 9. Dav is working on licencing and franchising his brand globally with partners in Chicago and Germany. Dav has sponsored charities such as The Coombe Hospital, The Share a Dream Foundation, Plan Ireland, LauraLynn Children’s Hospice Foundation and SOSAD. He has put a five piece girl band together who are working on their first single after a massive audition process in January 2011. Dav does live sound engineering for bands too, just recently he has done live sound for Sony signed Paddy Casey, Trans Auto Radio who have recently appeared live on 2FM and the Malahide Music Festival which had thousands in attendance. On the 7th of August Dav appeared in a Sunday Times article in the business section and has recently signed a deal with Bardon Music Publishing. Dav has been scouting talent for the under 18's RTE series 'Sing' which is to be aired in January and the over 18's show 'The Voice' also to be aired on RTE television.

 

Eanan Patterson - Music Composer

Award winning composer, Éanán, has been scoring & producing music professionally for well-known production companies like RTÉ, TG4, Setanta Sports, Microsoft Studios and Sony Pictures Television since 2004. 

Recent work includes the score for IFTA nominated documentary "TK Whitaker - Servant of the State",  original music & arrangements for the new Irish Dance show, "Celtic Rising", the score for two comedy shows on Sony Picture's C-Spot channel, as well as the score for Season 4 of Microsoft's hit web series "The Guild" for which Éanán earned a "Best Original Music" nomination at the Steamy Awards in Los Angeles.

Son of renowned Irish tenor Frank Patterson and pianist Eily O'Grady, Éanán was born in Dublin, Ireland and at a young age moved with his parents to the United States. Later, at the age of thirteen he was accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School of Music (pre-college division) where he studied violin and piano with professors Sally Thomas, Ann Setzer and Elena Wolkonsky. Éanán received a Recording Arts degree in Music Engineering & Production at Full Sail College, Florida where he won the Lee Deforest Cup, an audio post-production award in 2003. He also has a specialist certificate in Music Theory & Orchestration from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a Digidesign certified audio-post operator for Pro Tools systems. 

As a violinist, he has performed in major concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Boston Symphony Hall and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Éanán currently spends his time between Ireland and the United States composing & producing music for film, television and a wide variety of artists / composers such as Steven Stern, Marina Arsénijevic, Sid Cherry, Strings of Tara, and Jane Hunt.


 

Yasmine Beharic - Head of Marketing/PR & Event Management

Yasmine has been heavily involved in the Pr, Marketing and Event industry for over  10 years. Yasmine’s work and dedication launched the new Entertainment Agency Platinum – from Business Consulting to Pr and Event Management – Brand Management the agency was successfully launched this year in the Wright Venue which attracted over 500 guests and  the night was quoted  “ The Biggest Launch Party to Hit the Wright Venue”. Music related Yasmine assisting and managing in the development and implementation of PR / Marketing campaigns for artists such as Emy Onyesoh- from website design, Graphic design, PR and Marketing, Sponsorship , Premiere event launches and music video coordination we believe Yasmine  is a huge asset to Pop Star Studios.

Some of Yasmine’s clients include; The Wright Venue ,Arte Novi Clinic, Platinum and Entertainment Agency, LA Makeup Academy, Emy Music, Elite Model’s Ireland, Makeup FabLicious, We Are Top Models, Dresselicious, Soho, Karl Henry, Yare Jegbefume, Mickey Joe Harte, Ricardo Records.

 

 

Chris Quinn Video Producer/Editor,
The latest addition to the PopStar Studio team, taking the helm on the newest concept to arrive at
PopStar Studios. With over fifteen years behind the scenes experience in Film, Television, corporate
video and event production , working on movies as Michael Collins, Space truckers, Sweeney Todd,
King Arthur and Taffin to name a few, will no doubt be a valuable asset in the PopStar Studio
Experience. Along with this, he already has developed a tremendous reputation for delivering the
highest quality music video productions and promotional videos in the country with well known Irish
Artists.