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Online music courses and private lessons

Salt Peanuts unique method for developing your talent

Welcome to Salt Peanuts Composition School, where I offer online music courses and private lessons for students of all levels, ages, and styles. My own method, based on what I learned at UNIR, Berklee College of Music, Atlantic Coast Conducting Academy,  Katarina Gurská Conservatory, and Escuela de Música Creativa, will help you to develop your musical talent in a comprehensive manner. Here you will find a space to learn, grow and connect through music.

Tonal Harmony 1 and 2

Composition and Analysis: Levels 1 to 4

Jazz Harmony and Contemporary Composition

 Levels 1 to 4

Instrumentation and Score Preparation

The Study of Orchestration

Advanced Orchestration Techniques

About Carolina Hengstenberg

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Carolina Hengstenberg is a multifaceted composer, orchestrator, arranger and music director. 

She has composed music for ballet, theater, animation and film, jazz, big band and symphony orchestra. She was one of the orchestrators of the Christmas Concert at the Carnegie Hall and the co-founder at the Animation and Music Studio Bubblegum Cartoons

Carolina has been a Berklee Online Instructor of Counterpoint until 2024, when she  launched her own online teaching project to offer her students a more affordable and personalized learning experience.

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Carolina Hengstenberg

Education

UNIR, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja

M.M. Composition

Atlantic Coast International Conducting Academy

Specialization Course in Orchestral Conducting

Berklee College of Music

B.M. Composition. Magna Cum Laude. Conducting Minor

Composition, Film Scoring, Conducting, Jazz

Escuela de Música Creativa

Contemporary Writing and Arranging

​Composition and Arranging Award

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

M.M. in Teacher Training for Secondary Education

Katarina Gurská Conservatory

Alto Saxophone, Music Theory, Solfege

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