Andrea Balency-Béarn is a French-Mexican composer, performer and researcher based in London.

Born in Paris and raised in Mexico City, she works in the fields of live performance, fixed media, dance, film and multimedia. She has worked with outstanding ensembles including the Riot Ensemble, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Nash Ensemble, the Royal Academy of Music and New Movement Collective, and her work has been recorded and performed internationally.

She is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where her work investigates how compositional boundaries shape emergent phenomena in pieces for acoustic instruments and real-time electronics.

As a film composer, she has scored feature films and TV series for Netflix, Amazon Studios and the BBC. Her latest scores include Dust, directed by Anke Blondé, which premiered in Competition at the Berlinale and was nominated for the Golden Bear, and On the Road, which won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.

She also performs in the UK electronic / alternative rock band Mount Kimbie.