As a teenager, Pedro Osuna remembers having one earbud in when he ate with his family at the dinner table. He wasn\u2019t listening to music, or a podcast, or a sports broadcast. He was learning about music production from a free Berklee Online lesson through Coursera.
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This year, Pedro graduated from Berklee College of Music with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Film Scoring. He was the recipient of the George Delerue Award, the most prestigious award given by the Berklee Film Scoring department. His Berklee journey has come full circle, from being a teenager taking Berklee\u2019s free massive open online courses, to earning his degree from Berklee\u2019s campus in Boston.
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\u201cThe free courses reach a massive amount of people who work in music and want to make a career out of it,\u201d says Pedro. \u201cFor me, there were many factors why I decided to go to Berklee, and Berklee Online was one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pedro grew up in Granada, Spain playing classical piano and violin and later joined the Granada Professional Conservatory, where his interest in composition grew.
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\u201cWhen my teacher left the room, instead of practicing the piece, I would play whatever I wanted, and that was my favorite thing,\u201d says Pedro. \u201cInstead of sitting down and playing scales, I would sit down and play the mood that I was in. I didn’t really like studying one piece because it’s based on repetition, and I got super bored so I would improvise in the style of the composer. So for me, from improvisation, I got into composition.\u201d
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In Granada, Pedro struggled to find places to study film scoring and remembers scouring the internet for how-to videos. He googled search terms like \u201clearning film scoring\u201d and \u201chow to score films\u201d when he came across Berklee Online\u2019s free videos in Coursera.
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