This website is a support facility and showcase for young composers as part of the Westchase Music School in Tampa. Tampa Composer offers music composition basics and the use of our workstation and the notation software Finale.

While the great composers like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven may still reign supreme in classical circles, a generation of new young composers are challenging its traditional boundaries.

Many great composers didn’t start really making business until later in life, mostly in their late twenties up to middle age. However, a handful of them  were, in fact, musical prodigies since their young ages. Westchase Music School has talented composers from the age of 9 years and older.

As students, most musicians at least start to explore the idea of writing their own musical compositions, rather than just play other people’s music all the time. These experiments often end just as quickly as they began because students feel that they aren’t any good at it, or they run into obstacles and they give up early. This is where Tampa Composer closes the gap with a systematic curriculum and gradual approach for successful composition.

This spring we are going to launch a Composer Challenge. You write a new composition for either piano, solo-instrument/ voice and piano or a small ensemble. Around Christmas 2020, a panel of judges chooses the top three compositions to be performed and recorded by the Tampa Composer studio. Best 3 performers will win a lucrative price.

Moreover, composing and writing your own songs brings with it all sorts of benefits that you just can’t get from playing music written by traditional composers.  As it turns out, writing your own music has a number of health, emotional, and social benefits. Find out more…

Do you want to be a Tampa Composer? Call us at (813) 925-0102