SCHOOL OF THE ARTS / FOUNDING CLASS 2026
Founding Senior Fellow of Screen & Interactive Composition
Rachel “Ray” McFarlane
Appointed 2026 · Founding Class
Rachel “Ray” McFarlane is a composer whose work moves between film and television scoring, interactive media and concert music. She brings an approach informed by orchestration, contemporary scoring technology and the changing relationship between music and visual storytelling.
A 2025 graduate of Berklee College of Music, Rachel completed a double major in Film and Media Scoring and Games and Interactive Media Scoring and was selected as the college’s 2025 student commencement speaker. Her experience includes contributions to the Riot Games Music Team, composition for Sounds of Red Bull, music for Bell TV’s Coming Home, and game scoring and implementation through a Ubisoft and SOCAN residency.
Selected work
- Riot Games Music TeamMusic contributions
- Sounds of Red Bull — Orchestrals IIComposition
- Coming Home — Bell TVScreen composition
- Ubisoft + SOCAN residencyGame music composition & implementation
Area of stewardship
Screen Composition · Interactive Media · Orchestration · Creative Technology
At COOL ACADEMY
Rachel brings a composer’s perspective on the passage from musical ideas to scoring for picture and interactive environments, including briefing, creative feedback, revision and production collaboration.