Learn from Great Composition Teachers

Hello, my name is Michael Nunes, and I am a composer and horn player from Sherwood Park, Alberta. I am currently a substitute musician with the New World Symphony in Miami as I pursue an MMus degree at The Juilliard School with Erik Ralske of the Metropolitan Opera.

I received my bachelor diploma in Guitar, Jazz and popular music from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota - I graduated with honors and my thesis on Jazz as transcultural phenomena was laureate. I later received my Master's Degree from the Conservatory of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, the oldest music conservatory in Germany.

Pete began playing electric bass in 1988, self-taught for the first two years, he learned to play by ear on a fretless 4 string bass. It was not long afterwards that he progressed to 5 and 6 string fretted and fretless basses as well as double bass.

Hello! I have had a deep connection with music in all its forms from a very young age. Through Middle School, High School, and four years of College, I performed with Concert Bands, Jazz Bands, and Marching Bands as a Trumpet player, where I also began writing my own compositions for solo trumpet.

My name is Matt Gleason and I am a multi-instrumentalist music composer and producer. I have been teaching electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and drums for 7 years now and have received a Bachelor of Science in Music from the University of Colorado Denver. I started learning music when I was five years old on the piano, and have been in love ever since.

I'm a musician based in Cape Town, South Africa who started out as a pianist and then migrated over to Bass Guitar. I've been an industry professional for nearly twenty years and have performed locally and internationally with some fairly notable people such as Johnny Clegg, Jonathan Butler and Nils Landgren to name a few!

Guitarist, composer, and educator, Will Ross has been teaching music for over 9 years. At Oberlin College and Conservatory, he graduated with degrees in Jazz Guitar Performance and Economics from their double degree program. While at Oberlin, he taught guitar to college students each semester with experience varying from beginner to advanced.

Prisca Dávila, Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer, is recognized for her particular musical language, based on the fusion of melodies and genres of the traditional music of her country, with the technique, dynamics and nuances of classical music and contemporary harmony and jazz improvisation.

I’m a composer, producer and sound designer based in London, UK, with a passion for teaching music production for film, TV and theater, orchestral mockups, and music theory. My work spans film, TV, and musical theater, with more than 30 credits on IMDb. My debut EP, ‘Wonder Wasteland’, was released in 2024, and my first musical theater project is currently in development.

Callandra (Cal) Youngleson is an award-winning jazz vocalist, composer and educator originally from South Africa, based in Chicago. She has performed internationally collaborating with some of South Africa and America's greatest jazz and popular musicians.