This question, in many ways, reflects the path of every major role in filmmaking. To illustrate, consider two examples. Director Sir Christopher Nolan, known for Memento, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet,  and Oppenheimer,  and composer Hans Zimmer, famous for Gladiator, The Lion King, Dune,  and Pirates of the Caribbean,  didn’t go to school for their craft or get a diploma in it. On this side of the coin, things are simple. Some people can grow, work

Most people meet their future careers somewhere between adolescence and early adulthood. They make a choice in high school, walk through university, and step into life at around twenty-two with a title attached to their name. It is a tidy, predictable narrative. Mine was a bit more complicated. I grew up in a world where music was not an interest but a daily language. Conservatory corridors, practice rooms, pages of sheet music that never stayed neatly stacked. By the time I

Beginning this blog feels like opening a personal and professional dialogue that I have been meaning to start for a long time. My path in music began when I was eight years old, learning piano with my father, who is an opera singer. By the age of ten, I entered the conservatory’s piano department, and those early years shaped the discipline and curiosity that still guide my work today. Even then, although I didn’t fully understand what it meant, the idea of writing music for