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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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