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