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Grammy-winning Composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass, Now Open for Winter 2025 Enrollment: A 12-week Intensive Course in Soundtrack Analysis and Media Scoring

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Grammy-winning Composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass, Now Open for Winter 2025 Enrollment: A 12-week Intensive Course in Soundtrack Analysis and Media Scoring

The Music Telegraph| 입력 : 2024/12/07 [11:58]

 

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Grammy-winning Composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass, Now Open for Winter 2025 Enrollment: A 12-week Intensive Course in Soundtrack Analysis and Media Scoring  

 

 

Grammy-winning composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass (Penka's Masterclass) is now accepting students for its Winter 2025 session, which begins on January 13, 2025.

 

Penka's Masterclass is a 12-week intensive course in soundtrack analysis and media scoring, taught by Hollywood composer Penka Kouneva. This course is designed for emerging, mid-career, and established film/TV/game composers worldwide who seek to master new scoring techniques, replenish their well of inspiration, and get hired on scoring jobs. The Masterclass emphasizes composition and orchestration techniques through the analysis of over 50 recent film and game scores and soundtracks. The class spans 12 weeks, featuring weekly lectures, private mentoring on composition skills and career development, and hands-on composing sessions. The course is flexible to meet the career goals of each mentee, with options to attend lectures only or focus solely on composition lessons. All lectures are taught in English via Zoom. 

 

 

 

© Penka Kouneva


Graduates of Penka's Masterclass have recently been hired as contract composers for films and games for which they demoed with Penka's guidance, have co-scored six independent features with Penka, and have secured full-time positions as Composer Assistants to top studio composers through Penka's referral. Other class graduates have released singles and EP's, and have arranged meetings with industry veterans through Penka's introduction at GDC (Game Developers Conference), GSC (Game Sound Con), SCL (The Society of Composers and Lyricists), Scoring Academies, etc. These are the premiere professional organizations and conferences for media composers in the United States. 

 

 

 

© Penka Kouneva


Penka Kouneva is a Grammy-winning composer and studio orchestrator. She has worked in Hollywood for 25 years, scoring television (Dragon Age Absolution series on Netflix), feature films (Aga, Encounter), video games (Legends of Runeterra, Prince of Persia), VR experiences (Harry Potter, The Mummy), documentaries (PBS Zero Gravity, Women Who Score), and theme parks (NASA). On IMDb, she has over 170 credits. Penka holds a Ph.D. in composition from Duke University and is known as a great mentor, having helped over 100 young film and game composers cultivate successful Hollywood careers and become top studio composers and orchestrators. 

 

 

 

© Penka Kouneva

 

© Penka Kouneva


The Masterclass focuses on compositional mastery, techniques, and skills via analysis of great soundtrack cues and weekly feedback on your original compositions. All scoring assignments are tailored for the film and game industry using actual film, TV, and game videos. Intensive weekly composing (both to picture and not to picture) and weekly feedback on your cues give you a competitive edge and a polished reel, meeting industry standards, that you can submit and adapt for future scoring opportunities. The learning is industry-oriented and personalized.

 

Penka's Masterclass spans 12 weeks: 10 weekly lectures on Zoom (75 minutes), 10 guided scoring assignments, 10 weekly private mentoring sessions (30-35 minutes), and weekly independent study (score study, reading blogs curated by Penka over 20 years, and more). The class also includes two weeks without lectures, during which Penka will review and polish each mentee's website, music page, demo reels, biography, pitch letter, follow-up emails to film/TV/game professionals, scoring job inquiries, current scoring jobs, and various marketing assets. These weeks also allow the mentees to catch up on composing and revisions. 

 

 

 

© Penka Kouneva


Graduates have described the Masterclass as "an extraordinary and invaluable experience. Penka is not only a master of her craft, but a wonderful mentor" (Thomas Booker-Price, game composer, UK); "an invaluable investment in yourself. Her guidance and class resources will take your film scoring chops to the next level" (Nick Cimity, film and TV composer, US); "Penka is an extraordinarily devoted teacher and mentor whose guidance has helped me discover my artistic voice" (Rebecca Everett, composer, Canada). To date, graduates from over 30 countries have taken Penka's Masterclass.

 

The prerequisites for the class are a background in music education, the ability to read orchestral scores, and a commitment to or active pursuit of a professional career as a film/TV/game/trailer composer, orchestrator, media composer assistant, or in any related field. Current students are also welcome to apply.

 

 

Features

  • 12 weeks of intensive study for Soundtrack Analysis and Media Scoring
  • 12 weeks of weekly lectures, private mentoring, and scoring assignments: Ten 75-minute Lectures, Ten 30-minute private mentoring sessions, Ten guided scoring assignments
  • Emphasizes orchestration and compositional techniques via analysis of 50+ recent film&game scores and soundtracks
  • Weekly curated independent study
  • Two weeks "off" for catching up
  • The class is adaptable to the career objectives of each mentee
  • The learning is industry-oriented and personalized
  • Taught in English on Zoom

 

 

Price

$1,000 USD

 

* Tax-deductible in the US as a vocational expense / educational expense via the instructor's corporation Penka Kouneva Studios, Inc.

 

** The Winter 2025 class begins on January 13 and ends on April 4, 2025.

 

 

For more information on 'Penka's Masterclass'

 

 

 

 

 

About 'Penka's Masterclass' (https://penkamasterclasses.com/)

Grammy-winning composer and studio orchestrator Penka Kouneva has worked in Hollywood for 25 years, scoring television, films, video games, and theme parks. Penka is known as a great mentor, having helped over 100 young film, game, and classical composers cultivate remarkable Hollywood careers and become top studio composers. She is now excited to share her passion for score analysis with emerging composers through Penka's Masterclass.

 

 

 

 

 

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