Training
•Bullet: Foundational music education covering theory, musicianship, and applied performance on voice or instrument
•Bullet: Includes music technology, electronic music production, jazz history, Latin American music, and world music courses
•Bullet: Class instruction in voice, piano, violin/viola, and guitar
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Soundscape) performed at the Apollo Theater and Carnegie Hall in NYC and at the 2018 ACDA Western Division Conference
•Bullet: Soundscape won four Downbeat Music Awards for Best Vocal Jazz Group and placed 1st at the Reno Jazz Festival
•Bullet: Concert Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Guitar Ensemble, Latin Music Ensemble, and Musical Theater vocal/orchestra ensembles
•Bullet: Regular public concerts in the 500-seat Skyline College Theater
Faculty
•Bullet: Michelle Hawkins (MM Jazz Studies, USC): Soundscape director, received the 2017 Outstanding Music Educator Award from the Stanford Jazz Workshop
•Bullet: Jude Navari (PhD, UC Berkeley; BM, Eastman School of Music): music theory, composition, Concert Choir conductor, and Spring Musical vocal director
•Bullet: Luis Zuniga (DMA, University of Colorado Boulder): Concert Band and Jazz Band director, saxophonist
