Training
•Bullet: Four semesters of ensemble study through concert band, stage band, Chorale, or Panola Pipers
•Bullet: Four semesters of two-credit applied study in Brass
•Bullet: Small classes and performance opportunities support preparation for transfer
Facilities
•Bullet: Frances B. Ross Music Building with practice rooms, study spaces, piano lab, band hall, and choir room
•Bullet: Separate first-through-second-year lesson sequences are published for trumpet, horn and trombone.
•Bullet: Euphonium/baritone and tuba retain their own lesson-number families rather than sharing a generic applied course.
•Bullet: Current faculty recitals feature trumpeter James Bogs and trombonist Dwaine Hubbard in repertoire spanning Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: 60-hour AS Music Field of Study designed for transfer to a four-year institution