Maffe's career at Biola is given the capstone of 2019 Outstanding Musician Award in the Composition Department. This award is given to the student of highest merit for his or her endeavors...

For the second year in a row, Maffe takes home both first and second place in the annual Biola Composition Competition. "Patchwork Grey," a solo harp piece performed by Gretchen Sheetz won first place. It is characterized by its colorful chromaticism...

The collaboration of Sterling Maffe, Townsend Dick, and Kianna Bliven again pays off as Maffe takes home his second straight title of "Best Original Score" at the Biola Film Festival...

A new film titled "Sunsprite" premiered from the makers of the award-winning short, Mort. on April 6. Sunsprite features the same charming storytelling of Kianna Bliven and the stunning visuals of Townsend Dick...

The Screen Scoring Masters degree program (formerly a certificate) at USC's Thornton School of Music has long been considered the best program for film music in the world. It has also long been Maffe's desired post-graduate destination...

In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Southern California Brass Consortium, Maffe was commissioned to write the opening for a concert which featured some highlights of the band's performances from over the years...

After a full year of preparation, the Biola Symphonic Winds (Bob Feller, conductor) performed a 90-minute concert consisting solely of Maffe's original music. The event was the first of its kind at the 110-year-old school...

The old saying proved true on Tuesday when "Patchwork Grey," Maffe's composition for solo harp, won the fourth annual A Piacere Solo Instrument Composition Competition at Biola. The purpose of the competition...

On November 10, 2018 the Biola Symphonic Winds band will put on a concert featuring nearly an hour of Maffe's original music for large ensemble. The program is expected to be a compilation...

The first international performance of Sterling Maffe's music took place in Vienna on June 24, 2018 as part of the Vienna Summer Music Festival. World-renown contemporary classical ensemble PHACE...

Maffe's dark, whimsical, and heart-warming score for Mort. (2017) has been honored with the 2018 Biola Film Festival Best Original Score award. The film (directed by Kianna Bliven) is about a man...

Sterling Maffe continues to gather accolades as he rounds the corner into his final year at the Biola University Conservatory of Music, adding three new awards to his resume. In the 2018 annual composition contest, Maffe won...

Maffe's second cinematic album (following Legend) has been released worldwide. The Frozen King features an hour of music in a variety of film music styles and instrumentations...

Maffe has collaborated with several bright minds from the Biola School of Cinema and Media Arts to produce an exciting new short film titled Mort. The film is about a man who is cursed with the power of death...

What better way to accompany dark comedy than with jazz. Maffe teams up with Brandon Douglas (Hexit) again for a short film that you feel guilty laughing at. The score is characterized by..

Gleo Huyck (pictured) and the Mat-Su Concert Band, frequent collaborators with Maffe, gave 'Alaska' another whirl in the first concert of their season. They originally commissioned the piece in 2015, but were unable to record the premiere at the time...

"It was a surreal experience, to say the least," Maffe says about the experience, "one day I'm dreaming of the possibilities to come, maybe five years down the line I'll cross paths with Hans Zimmer—then the next day I'm standing in his office meeting him."...

A hybrid of symphony and synthesizer we have not yet heard from Maffe. The Hexit soundtrack, while it doesn't have sweeping themes, is full of catchy leitmotifs and interesting timbres...

Biola University Conservatory of Music hosts an annual awards luncheon wherein students are given different accolades based on their performance in the previous school year both academically and extracurricularly...

Maffe's piece for string orchestra, "Catacombs of a Rose," has won first place in the 2017 Biola Composition Competition. The piece gained traction after its premiere in Anchorage, Alaska back in April...