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About Collin Chu

Digital Audio Technology

Collin Chu is an award-winning composer with over 20 films and video games titles. He often used the Budapest Scoring Orchestra to record for these projects and hybrids with electronic elements. Chu began scoring for films, video games, and VR shortly after he received his two master’s degrees in film music composition from Seattle Film Institute and classical music composition from California State University, East Bay. Currently, he is working full-time as a piano content developer at Ubisoft, an AAA video game company. Chu has over six years of experience teaching music technology and commercial music composition classes. He looks forward to sharing his industry knowledge with the students here in University of Silicon Valley.

Formal Education

Master’s degree in Film Music Composition
Seattle Film Institute

Master’s degree in Classical Music Composition
California State University, East Bay

Industry Experience

Piano content developer at Ubisoft, an AAA video game company