attila pacsay born october 30 1970 is a hungarian composer who is particularly known for his music written for films television and the theatre his compositions encompass a wide variety of music from chamber music and symphonic works to jazz pieces and contemporary musiche began his musical studies in piano trumpet and trombone at age 7 a few years later he started preparing for a career as composer his compositions were performed by his own band at age 14 he was accepted in the composition class of lszl draskczy and attila remnyi at the jnos richter conservatory in the city of gyr he received his college degree in composition at the budapest ferenc liszt academy of music where he studied in the class of emil petrovicsafter graduation mr pacsay began working as freelancer initially he composed music for television and radio programs and in 1997 he met his childhood musician friend the director gza m tth who was searching for a composer for his animated films their collaboration resulted in hundreds of short animated television ids and several animated short filmsduring these years besides film scores mr pacsay composed music for theater and prepared symphonic music arrangementspacsay has collaborated on films with such notable directors as ferenc rofusz ferenc cako and gza m tth for his work on the film ergo he won the award for best sound design at the animanima international animation festival in 2008 the prize for best film score at the kecskemet animation film festival kaff in 2009 the award for best film music at the asolo art film festival in 2010 and best sound design award at the anifest rozafa 2010 albania for the music and sound design of geza m toths short feature film mama he won the leo best music award at the 23rd braunschweig film festival in 2009 and he was awarded a kaff prize for best music in 2011 for his work on zsfia taris szofita land he also notably wrote the music for the computer animated short film maestro which was nominated for best animated short film during the 79th academy awards in 2007besides his work as film composer mr pacsay is constantly present at other areas of the music scene for example his classical orchestrations are on the repertoire of among others the mendelssohn chamber orchestra of the city of veszprm in the lighter genres mr pacsay is known as the permanent orchestrator for tibor ttraisince 2001 he has served on the faculty of the media institute at moholynagy university of art and design in budapest