Guitar Students participate in a comprehensive program designed to develop the technical ability, musical skills, knowledge of repertoire, and practice habits necessary for achieving success in a university classical guitar program. Activities include private lessons, master classes, recitals, technique classes, musicianship, conducting, and guitar ensemble. Special emphasis will be placed on sight-reading. Faculty will include Anne Waller and Mark Maxwell. The program offers jazz students the opportunity to refine both their performance skills and their theoretical understanding of jazz.
Combos rehearse daily, with improvisation the top priority.
Students also take classes in jazz theory and composition, jazz history, and jazz arranging. Faculty will include David Fodor, Antonio J. Garcia, Michael Kocour, Matt Olson, and Hans Sturm. The Music Education major will provide students with a vision of music education in the 21st Century. Students will participate in the Seminar in Music Education emphasizing leadership, conducting, rehearsal techniques, and classroom management. Faculty will include Dan Farris and Stephen Rohwer.