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Turn the sound in your imagination into a finished score.
Private composition lessons for first sketches, songs, piano works, sacred music, chamber pieces, and larger projects—at the same monthly rate as piano or voice.
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Ideas shaped into music that can live
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Ideas shaped into music that can live
Composition study brings craft to inspiration. Nic helps writers develop motives, harmony, form, texture, notation, revision, and the practical discipline needed to finish and share meaningful work.
Notation and score preparation
Revision, orchestration, and arrangement
A portfolio shaped around your musical voice
Technique is not the opposite of freedom. Taught well, it is how freedom becomes repeatable.— Nic Patterson
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Founding enrollment is open for home-studio study in St. Augustine and live online lessons.
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