Education
Miyazaki received no formal music training until the age of 20, when he entered a music school to study musical composition with a minor in piano education. In order to pass the college entrance exam, he spent a year teaching himself the material. He spent two years studying for the entrance exams required to attend a true college, but never entered one.
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