Intercontinental Edition
Africa • Asia • Europe • North America • South America • Oceania
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Submit your music.
Win recording sessions
and incredible prizes.
Welcome to the Intercontinental Edition
Compete only against other composers from your continent for the global grand prize.
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Oceania
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Global Grand Prize Winner:
Submit your original music for adjudication by a jury of over a dozen industry professionals, curated by the Film Scoring Academy of Europe and the European Recording Orchestra (ERO), for the chance to win incredible prizes and studio recording sessions of your music.
Compete against other composers from your continent for a chance to make it to your continent's leaderboard. The winners from each continent go head to head in the final round to determine the global grand prize winner.
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Submit music of any instrumentation. There are no restrictions on instrumentation, duration, style, or the composer's age, ethnicity or experience. Submit examples of your best music.
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Submit more than one piece and let your creative voice speak for you. Adjudication takes into account the composer's unique compositional voice as displayed across multiple submissions.
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Composers must submit a PDF and mp3 of their music via the form below. mp3's can be notation software audio renderings, MIDI mockups or live recorded audio.
2025
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Extended 4-month trial of Dorico Pro 5 and a 20% off Dorico coupon, courtesy of Steinberg and the Dorico team
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Private access to a FSAE music technology lecture focusing on essential techniques for the creation of realistic MIDI mockups and creative uses of sampling and synthesis​​
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Top 25% of Each Continent
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Private login to the FSAE Online Platform with access to educational content in MIDI mockups, scoring the screen and finding your voice
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€1,000 Scholarship to the FSAE Online Graduate Diploma in Film & Game Scoring
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€750 Scholarship to the annual Film Scoring Summer Program on the Black Sea beach
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Private film scoring lecture hosted live by the Film Scoring Academy of Europe
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Private access to a lecture in room acoustics, acoustic treatment and principles of sound for composers and conductors
Top 30 (Top 5 of Each Continent)​
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One-on-one orchestration lesson with Dr. Norman Ludwin, orchestrator for Michael Giacchino
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Exclusive access to 15 lessons in Scoring for Games, offered by FSAE Online
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35%+ ​Educational Discounts at industry software and hardware manufacturers via enrollment in the FSAE Online CFS Course
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50% Discount on all purchases at Edu Prado Sounds and PAS Music
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Winner from Each Continent
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17-piece strings recording session with the European Recording Orchestra (ERO) at Doli Media Studio (€475 value)
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Steinberg's Dorico Pro 5 (€579 value)
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Big Bams Epic Hybrid Percussion Library from Edu Prado Sounds (€89 value)
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PAS Music Film Scoring Template for Dorico Pro 5, the industry's most popular film scoring template (€49 value)
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Global Grand Prize Winner
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52-piece symphony orchestra recording session with the European Recording Orchestra (ERO) at BNR Studio 1 (€1,175 value)
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Steinberg's Iconica Opus Orchestral Suite (€999 value)
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Steinberg's Cubase Pro 14 (€579 value)
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Steinberg's Absolute VST Instrument Collection (€499 value)
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Rathgar Pipe Organ from Edu Prado Sounds (€129 value)
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Professionally mixed and edited audio and video from the session to be used in paid promotional materials crediting the composer
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Past Winners and Finalists
Honorable mentions from the 2022 Call for Scores are awarded to composers Andre Carvalho, Ann Chia-Ying Lee, David John Roche, Dominik Zvoboda, Nicolas Ballois, Patryk Sikora, Pere Gual, Su-Chan Sang, Yiren Wang, Zhengtao Pan, and Ziang Liu. Additional congratulations to you on your fantastic submissions!
