Learn from Great Composition Teachers

My name is Kesem Ninio and I am a professional trombone player, composer and music teacher. I have a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. I graduated with honors when he was 16, and moved to the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv for a major in trombone performance. In my second year there, I won third place in the school's wind instruments competition.

Timothy A. Helisek is the first place winner of the 2004 edition of the Normandale Composer’s Competition for his classical chamber piece 'Beauty in Sadness.' 'Dancing Towards the Sun,' also a chamber piece, won first place in the same competition in 2005, as well as second place in the Minnesota Music Educators Association Composition Contest the same year.

Pablo Elorza (born in Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina on June 10, 1982). Bass Player, Composer, Producer, Author and Teacher has been on the national music scene for the last 18 years. On the last 3 years He has developed a increasing International reputation winning several prices as the recently Made in New York Jazz Competition in the Composer Category.

According to Guitar Player Magazine, Jane Getter is "the fieriest fretboarding female ever to strap on a Stratocaster.” She has played with many jazz and rock greats while garnering increasing recognition as a gifted writer, bandleader, instrumentalist and vocalist.

Sometimes, I wish composing was as easy as making yogurt—once started, it would essentially create more of itself. Even though that is definitely not the case, I generally still take more enjoyment in the disorderly scrawls on the manuscript paper piling up on my desk than in the tangy bacteria cultures in my crockpot.

Composer, guitarist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from UC Berkeley. My music has been premiered by JACK Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Schallfeld Ensemble, L'Instant Donné, and Dal Niente at festivals across Europe, North and South America.

Raphaël Dargent is a French composer based in Los Angeles. His compositions include soundtracks for the Cannes selected feature The Legend (2018), 2020 Oscar eligible short film Two (2019), Prime Video thriller Silent as the Grave (2023), Apple TV film The Actor (2024) and the PBS documentary Why Dinosaurs? (2024).

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.

My name is Daniel Hyde. I am a professional pianist, dance accompanist, music-producer, university lecturer, touring musician and recording artist in the U.S. and Europe. I am a former employee of the Juilliard School, The Alvin Ailey Dance Company, The Martha Graham Dance Company, LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Kaatsbaan Cultural Center,…

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.