She attended the Royal College of Music in London, the Conservatoire National de Danse et de Musique de Lyon in France, and Yermouk University in Jordan, acquiring three degrees in piano performance and musicology along the way, as well as proficiency in three languages. Always pushing further, Ghiya will be starting a fourth degree at another distinguished institute, this time in neuroscience. She is also currently learning to speak Mandarin. In 2014, Ghiya moved to the US. Upon her arrival, she composed her first Hollywood film, PEN OF MIRRORS (starring Eric Roberts). Her melodic, dissonant, and layered score quickly gained wide critical acclaim, and has lead to steady work in Hollywood, on films, television shows, and video games. In 2016, she received a commission for composition for a royal event, where she can return to her musical and cultural roots and compose Arab and oriental music for the event. She has since composed pieces for other royalty from a variety of Middle Eastern countries. Ghiya was mentored by a number of major A-list Hollywood composers such as Christopher Lennertz (TROLLS, LOST IN SPACE, THE SMURFS..), Christopher Young (THE EXORCIST, SPIDERMAN, THE GRUDGE) and Timothy Wynn (TOTAL WAR, MADDEN NFL). She was awarded the prestigious BMI Foundation Pete Carpenter Fellowship in 2017 for her piece Fly and Flow that was recorded by a 70-piece orchestra in Budapest. She also counts among her honors the Global Music Awards Silver Medal for outstanding achievement in film and TV scoring, and is a jury member of Le Petit Cannes Film Festival 2018.
