Welcome to the Family

Get ready to join a consortium of over 360 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 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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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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Educational events and lectures with current faculty and guest composers on MIDI mockups, mixing and production, sound design, and composer workflows

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Alumni Spotlight

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

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Sergei Ivanov (Russia)

Graduate of FSAE 2023, Sergei Ivanov is a composer and music producer with a passion for epic cinematic, game, and anime music. In 2025, he launched the Aleon Raven project to explore new forms of musical storytelling by blending orchestral, vocal, electronic, and ethnic elements. Releasing his work as an independent artist on major streaming platforms, he has gained recognition in the epic music community, with features on major promotion channels like EpicMusicVN and Mr.EpicOST.

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Online Graduate Diploma in Film and Game Scoring

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Sparkle Nesby (United States)

Sparkle Nesby is a composer, musician and music producer from Phoenix, Arizona actively working under her artist name, Karma Soleil. She has released a variety of musical albums in her career ranging from jazz, pop, and cinematic genres. After graduating from FSAE in 2023, she has been working hard towards landing sync placements in TV & film someday. Since 2024, she has enjoyed collaborating with animators and other artists through her company Soulful & Nice Productions. Outside of music production, she is a music, English and finance teacher/coach who’s always happy to help a variety of people in these subjects.

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Film Scoring Summer Programme

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Wei-Ling Sivela Huang (Taiwan)

As an active composer in the vivid interactive media industry in Taiwan, Wei-Ling Sivela Huang has created original soundtracks for many games while keeping strong connections with concert performances. She is thriving in the making of joyful, uplifting, and dramatic music, which perfectly reflects her outgoing and easy-to-work-with personality. Wei-Ling is currently expanding her specialities into various other fields and will keep on making great works to make the world a better place.

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

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Festival in Varna

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