The phrase "aspiring composer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is in the process of developing their skills and pursuing a career in music composition.
Example: "As an aspiring composer, she spends hours each day practicing and studying the works of her favorite musicians."
Alternatives: "emerging composer" or "novice composer".
DAVID LANG first heard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" at the San Francisco Opera in 1974, as an undergraduate student and aspiring composer.
The play is set at a sparse Chinatown duplex belonging to Brigid Blake Sarah Steelee), a hipster aspiring composer who shops at farmers' markets, and her boyfriend, Richard Arian Moayedd).
Originally an aspiring composer, Carte became a music manager, representing the French composer Charles Gounod.
An aspiring composer himself, Mr. Salonen wisely feared the presence of ghosts.
The title character is an aspiring composer who decides to take a teaching job just for a semester or two and stays for 30 years.
Natasha, also an aspiring composer at the time of their relationship, left Boumedienne, abandoned composition and rose to international acclaim as a performer.
During one week in early March, while the Philharmonic was performing his "Pied Piper Fantasy" (written for James Galway, the flutist), Mr. Corigliano taught composition classes at Lehman, attended auditions for composing students at Juilliard, lectured aspiring composers at New York University and spent two mornings with a high school band and orchestra in Carmel, N.Y.
Professor/Rabbi Cotel is said to have inspired hundreds of aspiring composers — and one cat.
The orchestra is also running a contest for aspiring composers from kindergarten to 12th grade.
The American Composers Orchestra provides a valuable opportunity to aspiring composers through its annual Underwood New Music Readings, in which six emerging artists are chosen from hundreds of applicants.
In 1988 he became the associate musical director of the Jazz Composers Workshop, which the music licensing organization BMI established to guide aspiring composers and arrangers in the creation of new works for big bands.
