Learn from Great Composition Teachers

Dr. Trent Hanna is a composer, pianist, and educator with over 30 years of experience in higher education and professional performance. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Snow College, where he coordinates the Theory and Composition programs and has taught a wide range of courses including music theory, ear training, composition, piano, orchestration, and jazz.

I'm a composer currently based in Los Angeles. My music has been heard on television, independent films, feature films, web series, documentaries in the festival circuit, and concert halls around the U.S. I've also been at the forefront of new multimedia platforms, composing music for one of the first VR television series.

The composition faculty of Michigan State University has described the music of Michael Goodman (b. 1988) as dramatic, humorous, and energetic. He views composition as a communicative tool that enhances his musical and philosophical ideas. Michael’s music stems from personal, neurodivergent experiences of his own or close friends.

Hi! My name is Rodrigo. I am an Uruguayan composer, producer, and teacher living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been working for the past 15 years as a composer for media such as TV, video games, and movies. I love to teach and have been doing so since I was 20 years old.

I a composer and performing guitarist whose music weaves together fingerstyle technique, live looping, live electronics, and improvisation into a sound that is entirely my own. Over the past 20 years, I have developed this approach through intensive private study - working with a series of dedicated teachers in guitar, composition, harmony, improvisation and solfeggio - and, most…

Mark A. Nokes earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2005. He has performed in ensembles, as a solo guitarist, for film, and as a session guitarist. Mark has played many diverse styles of music on and off the stage including jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, blues, pop, and metal. He is the author of Modern Guitar Method: A Practical Approach.

I am a professional guitarist, graduated with honors in Jazz Guitar and Composition from the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. For over ten years I have been teaching guitar both privately and in music schools, working with students of all ages and levels.

I am a professional guitarist and qualified music teacher with extensive experience as a soloist, accompanist, and band member across various genres including Rock, Soul, Funk, Folk, Latin, Reggae, Gypsy Jazz, Classical, and more. I play Lead Guitar for the band El Misti and we're about to release our 4th album in 2025.

Brian was born June 1992 in Kitchener, a city just west of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. His musical life began at nine years when he first started lessons with his grandmother. After showing a growing fascination with jazz and blues music he began studies with Andriy Tykhonov.

I am a composer, arranger, and bassist who began my musical journey in 2010 at the Fernando Sor Music School, where I graduated in Music Production in 2014. I later pursued a degree in Composition at Universidad Central, graduating with honors in 2019, and completed a masters degree at the Liceu Conservatory in Barcelona, where I currently live.