Instructor

Filip Sijanec is an award-winning composer and musician based in London. As a storyteller, he transforms emotions into music to complement scenes on a deeper level. He creates original music in a broad range of styles for film, commercials, video games, theatre and online video content.

He has received multiple awards for his work including the Royal Television Society Student Award, Golden Reel Award, Peer Raben Award and WDR Filmscore Award. Many of the films he has contributed music to were screened and have earned prizes at numerous international film festivals including: Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK), Busan Film Festival (KR), Palm Springs Film Festival (US), London Short Film Festival (UK), Clermont International Film Festival (FR), Austin Film Festival (US), Sao Paolo Film Festival (BR) and many more.

Filip Sijanec trained in piano, violin and guitar. He studied Jazz Guitar (BA, MA) at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz (AT) and Composing for Film and TV (MA) at the National Film & Television School (UK).