Music Department

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VISION

Music is an essential part of human life, found in every culture across the globe. MCC’s Department of Music, long recognized for excellence, will contribute to the advancement of music through widely visible and impactful creative activity, scholarship, and research. It will prepare the next generation of musical leaders as professional performers, composers, and educators, and through offerings for general students, foster in the next generation of societal leaders, appreciation, and support for music’s value and centrality to society.

OUR MISSION

The Department of Music at McLennan Community College is a friendly, vibrant, student-oriented unit in an institution of higher learning that serves as an accessible, responsive and creative intellectual resource for the people and institutions of McLennan County. The faculty and staff of the department strive to meet the educational needs of a diverse student body through instruction, performance, scholarship and public service. Additionally, the department fosters the highest standards of teaching in its undergraduate program and supports the establishment and continuation of a just and moral society through its own accomplishments, the work of its faculty and staff, and the achievements of its graduates.

THE MCLENNAN TRADITION

For over fifty years, the McLennan Department of Music has been actively preparing music majors for transfer to four-year institutions as well as providing musical experiences for the MCC community and McLennan County. Students have the opportunity to perform in major ensembles as well as study privately with full-time music professionals. Our music majors successfully transfer to major universities across the state of Texas and former MCC music majors currently teach and perform throughout the United States.

The Music Department is housed on the beautiful MCC campus in the Wilbur A. Ball Performing Arts Center and the Music & Theatre Arts Building. Facilities include the 520-seat Bosque River Stage, a 360-seat theatre, a 100-seat recital hall, sound-proof practice rooms, a fully-computerized music learning lab, Yamaha electronic piano lab, rehearsal halls, as well as studio and office space for the teaching faculty. MCC is an All-Steinway institution.