Pippa Murphy is an award-winning composer, sound designer and producer who scores for screen, theatre, dance, choirs and orchestras interweaving classical, jazz, folk and electronic influences.

Theatre credits include: Windblown (Raw Materials); Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil, The Mountaintop, Macbeth (An Undoing) (Also Rose Theatre) (Lyceum); Dancing at Lughnasa (Sheffield Theatres/ Royal Exchange); Sound of Music (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); June Carter Cash, Orphans (NTS); Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape, A Streetcar Named Desire (Lyceum/Pitlochry Theatre); Truth’s a Dog (Tim Crouch/Lyceum), Enough of Him (NTS, Pitlochry Theatre); Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (Edinburgh International Festival/ Royal Court/ National Theatre Scotland/ Tim Crouch); Lost at Sea (Perth Horsecross); Red Lion (Rapture Theatre);  Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep); Crude (Grid Iron); Gilt (7:84); Strangers Babies (Traverse Theatre); Standing Wave: Delia Derbyshire (Tron Theatre Glasgow).

Film, Opera, Installations include: Stone of Destiny Visitor Experience (59 Productions, Perth Museum); Tate Galleries – Tracey Emin, Turner, Constable, Whistler exhibitions; Kilmartin Museum; Anamchara - Songs of Friendship (Scottish Opera, Commonwealth Games); All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea.

Pocket of Wind Resistance with Karine Polwart was shortlisted for BBC Folk Album of the Year 2018, and Scottish Album of the Year 2018. Pippa was Artist in Residence at Scottish Parliament, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists.
Pippa was awarded a 2026 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best Sound and Music for her work on Windblown.