GA M E AUDIO NETWOR K GUILD
SCHOLARS ALUMNI: GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE 2020 DAYNA AMBROSIO COMPOSER
School: Berklee College of Music Mentor: Jason Hayes A Berklee Film Scoring Graduate, Dayna Ambrosio is a Video Game and Film Composer with experience in music production, audio implementation, and sound design. A recipient of the 2019 BMI Film Scoring Award and Berklee Video Game Audio Endowed Scholarship for Women, she has worked on over 20 game titles in the past two years. She is currently working on two games to be released in the next year, providing music, sound design and audio implementation, as well as a short film to be released this summer.
COLE MASAITIS COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER, AUDIO ENGINEER School: San Francisco Conservatory of Music Mentor: Anastasia Devana
Cole Masaitis is a composer and sound designer from Fairfax, Virginia. He graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in their Music Technology and Applied Composition graduate program in 2019. Cole has come from playing music in numerous bands, and he most recently has found himself as a session guitarist for the newest episode of Bento Banana, as composer for the documentary “Mother to Earth”, indie games and jams, as well as being mentored by the team at Emperia Sound and Music.
XIEXIAOMENG HU (JACK) GAME AUDIO DESIGNER, TENCENT TIMI STUDIO School: Berklee College of Music Mentor: Scott Selfon
Jack Hu is a game audio designer at Tencent Timi studio in ShenZhen, he is a Berklee alumni. During his time at Berklee, Jack was the Vice President of the Chinese Music Industry club. In the summer of 2019, he interned at Tencent Aurora Studio and fell in love with game audio. In November 2019, Jack helped organize the Game Sound Design panel as part of the 3rd US-China Music summit at Berklee College of MusicRecently Jack is working on game audio design for two mobile games: Arena of Valor and QQ Speed Car.
SANDY ZHOU SOUND DESIGNER
School: Berklee College of Music Mentor: Scott Gershin Making convincing and immersive auditory experience has always been one of my strongest passions. I specialize in sound design, interactive audio design, music composition, and implementation. At Berklee, I received the Game Audio Fund for Women Scholarship. During my internship at Tencent Games Timi Studio, I was on the audio team of Honor of Kings. I am currently working with Power Up Audio as a freelance sound designer on their unannounced game project. Feel free to reach out!
AXEL DELAFONTAINE COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER
School: 3IS (Institut International de l’image et du son) Mentor: Max Davidoff-Grey I’m Axel, from France ! I work 3 weeks a month as a Sound Designer in a game audio company based in Angoulême. I also study sound design and audio engineering at 3IS France. During my free time I often play videogames or I do some music too ! Why not doing both ? That’s why I’m here. I always have been creative and living in such a rural area was really inspiring. I had the opportunity to attend GDC and GSC being on of this year’s scholars . That was an amazing experience and I really would like to the organization!
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