Private music composition

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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Concert grand piano illuminated by warm stage light

Ideas shaped into music that can live

The difference

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.

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Melody, harmony, form, and texture

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Notation and score preparation

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Revision, orchestration, and arrangement

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A portfolio shaped around your musical voice

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Technique is not the opposite of freedom. Taught well, it is how freedom becomes repeatable.
— Nic Patterson

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Let's discover what comes next.

Founding enrollment is open for home-studio study in St. Augustine and live online lessons.

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Studio application

Let's meet the musician.

This takes about three minutes. Every submission is delivered to both studio inboxes.

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Sent to nicpattersonmusic@gmail.com + nicnac.create@gmail.com