Our students come from over 25 countries and many different music backgrounds. About half of them are musically literate and the rest play by ear. We have a Professor of Music at a US University and DJ's with almost no traditional musical background. Our youngest student is 17 and the oldest 76. Some already have a foot on the ladder and want to give their career a boost but most are completely new to scoring TV and film.
What they share in common is a passion for writing music for film and television.
Listen to what some of our students say about the course.
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Name: Joe D'Agostino
Location: Ohio,USA
TV Composer and
Ex-MFTM Student
Joe studied music at the University of Arkon and spent a while gigging in clubs. He then moved into writing more orchestral music and joined MFTM in 2004. He has recently landed his first major job, scoring a two hour special for the ABC network.
Marinho Nobre is based in New York where he started out teaching guitar and playing in bands. He already had a foot on the ladder when he joined MFTM and was looking to get more experience and some expert advice. He's now scoring major commercials, one of which won him the prestigious Sky Media Creative Award for Best Music in a Commercial. He's also scoring more and more movies including "The Artists" and "Al Quarem".
Name: Thiago Gobet Spada
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
MFTM Student
Thiago's career really took off after joining MFTM. He has worked as a bass player before moving into media composition. Now he's scored a prime time television commercial, five computer games and a feature film!
Tony Patterson from the North East of the UK was a working musician who had been trying to get into media composing for a while. He recently beat thousands of other composer to win a place on the BBC's New Talent competition for composers.
Dave's day job was as a dental nurse when he first enrolled in the course. He had been playing in bands but wanted to have a go at writing media music. Seven months later he landed a full time job as composer for a large computer games company!
Paul was a project manager when he started the course but rapidly found a way of putting what he learnt on the course into practice and now earns a living writing music for television.
Steve threw himself into MFTM and was rewarded for his effort with a range of real-life work from short films to a feature film, all from his island paradise of Bermuda. Living proof that you don't need to live in LA to get started.
