Riya was awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious month-long 2022 NYU Film and TV Scoring Intensive in New York. She was the youngest participant in this industry-focused intensive, primarily aimed toward professional composers and graduate/undergraduate students. The workshop intensives were led by well-known Film and TV composers to simulate the fast turnaround of real-world scenarios with daily cue submission requirements and critiques by the original composers in front of all the participants. Due to the confidential nature of the video material used for the program, none of the corresponding film footage can be shared.

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Examples of past faculty include:

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Mark Snow (The X-Files, Blue Bloods), Michael Levine (Siren, Star Wars: Detours), Suzana Peric (The Lord of the Rings, The Silence of the Lambs), Todd Kasow (True Grit, Wonderstruck), Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot, Feud), Nate Barr (The Americans, True Blood), Blake Neely (Arrow, Riverdale), Pete Nashel (Marco Polo, Incorporated), Tass Fillipos (The Americans, The Departed), Tom Salta (Halo, Killer Instinct), Jason Kanter (Avalanche Studios), Gina Zdanowicz (Serial Lab), Eric Hachikian (Marco Polo, When We First Met), Jay Wadley (The OA, Indignation), Keith D’Arcy (SONGS Music Publishing), Karen Macmillan (Imagem / Concord Music) and more.