Training
•Transfer-focused music degree designed for seamless transfer to a CSU baccalaureate music program
•Guaranteed admission to the CSU system upon completion
•Includes private instruction (Applied Music lessons) on instrument or voice, plus ensemble performance
•Four-semester degree completion pathway available
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
•Concert Choir, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Guitar Ensemble, Latin Music Ensemble, and Musical Theater vocal/orchestra ensembles
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, Music Major Faculty Advisor
•Luis Zuniga (D.M.A., University of Colorado Boulder): Concert Band and Jazz Band director
