Alumni Access & Spotlight
Celebrating the achievements of accomplished music composers who have honed their craft and excelled in the industry. Discover their inspiring journeys, from refining their unique styles to composing scores for films, games, and orchestras, and how they continue to shape the world of music.
Welcome to the Family
Get ready to join a consortium of over 400 composers from 60 different countries who have graduated from the Master of Fine Arts in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media, the Online Graduate Diploma in Film and Game Scoring, or the Film Scoring Summer Programme.
What is Alumni Access?

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Free
Free benefits offered to alumni of all of our programmes, including educational composer seminars, guest lectures and professional portfolio opportunities

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Seminars
Exclusive guest composer seminars and lectures. Past guests include James Newton Howard, John Powell, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman, Mychael Danna and more

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And
More than just live events, all alumni can schedule free photography and videography sessions with our team for their websites and professional portfolios when they visit Sofia

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Events
Educational events and lectures with current faculty and guest composers on MIDI mockups, mixing and production, sound design, and composer workflows

Alumni Spotlight

Master of Fine Arts in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media

Zihany Fonseca (Costa Rica)
Zihany is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter and visual media composer whose work blends emotional depth with cinematic storytelling. Her professional journey includes working as an assistant to a composer within a production team that recorded at renowned studios such as East Connection Music Recording in Budapest (2022) and AIR Studios in London (2023). She later served as a copyist for the European Recording Orchestra in Bulgaria (2024–2025), collaborating on large-scale productions. Her original music has reached audiences across Latin America and Europe. Most recently, she composed and recorded the score for the animated short film Agua Dulce through the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, further shaping a distinctive voice in contemporary Latin screen music.

Online Graduate Diploma in Film and Game Scoring

Harry Turner (United Kingdom)
Harry Turner is a British composer based in the north of England. A classically trained pianist and composer, his work is shaped by a longstanding love of orchestral and electronic music with a strong focus on storytelling. Since graduating from FSAE, Harry’s path has been varied, including a brief hiatus from music to travel the world before settling in Australia for a year. Returning now to the British composing scene with renewed perspective and creative direction, he is developing new and exciting projects across multiple styles, including ambient and piano-led music released under the name Harry Franks.

Film Scoring Summer Programme

Valentino Cervini (Italy)
Valentino Cervini is an Italian composer and orchestrator specialized in music for videogames. His latest works include the original soundtrack for the video games Verho: Curse of Faces (2025) and Battle Tanks: Animal Wars (2025) by Kasur Games. He co-scored the soundtrack for the feature films il Santo di Carne (2024) and Quel dolore non è immobile (2023). As a concert composer, he had pieces performed by some prestigious Italian orchestras: the orchestral suite “Kintsugi – Elegia per la Consonanza” performed in 2025 by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo and “Coriolano Recomposed” performed in 2023 by the Orchestra Metropolitana di Bari.
Check out the music of some of our current and past students
Henrik Lindström (Sweden)
MFA Alumnus
Florence Sabeva (London)
Online Alumnus
Yakov Alexandrov (Russia)
Summer Programme Alumnus
Jon Dudagoitia (Spain)
MFA Alumnus
Pamela Cavero (Peru)
Online Alumnus
Hideki Tsutsumi (Japan)
Online Alumnus
Alumni Access Events
Festival in Varna
Join us in the festival of music in Varna this 2023
Orchestra recording lottery
Get ready.
Join FSAE for the next Cinema Roundtable:
MEMORIA (2021) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul