Quality Music Education with Year-Round Performance Opportunities
With our concerts and performances throughout the year, you'll get plenty of opportunities to be on stage while earning your degree in music.
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As one of the largest music programs at a two-year college in Texas, the TJC Music program produces graduates well prepared to excel at the university level and beyond. Our faculty features world-class musicians with high expectations who care about every student's growth and well-being.
We train our music students to be academically responsible, community-focused, and skilled at performing. Our goal is to provide top-quality ensemble experiences that rival any four-year university. Universities actively recruit our talented students, who transfer all over the United States to continue their music studies.
Audition Information
The TJC Music Department would like to invite interested and qualified students to audition for music scholarship opportunities and entrance into our many outstanding music ensembles.
Please follow the link below to fill out the information form and then email the Music Department Chair, Heather Mensch, for more details. We look forward to hearing you perform soon!
Strings and Piano Information Form
Heather Mensch, Music Department Chair
hmen2@tjc.edu
Areas of Concentration
Band
Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion students gain experience in multiple ensemble styles, as well as honing their solo instrument with exceptional professors, guest artists and master classes, e…
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Music Faculty
Professors in the Music Department are active performers and experienced educators.
Who We Are
- Heather Mensch, Department Chair/Professor, Music
- Eddie Airheart, Professor, Music
- Micah Bell, Professor, Music
- Robert Boren, Director, Choral Music/Professor, Voice
- Julianne Casey, Professor, Music (Duration
- Daniel Chapa, Professor, Music
- Emmanuel Flores, Professor, Music (Duration)
- Stephanie Johnson, Professor, Music (Duration)
- Frank Kimlicko, Professor, Music
- Kaden Larson, Professor, Music
- Tom McGowan, Professor, Music
- Charles Praytor, Professor, Music
- Jeremy Strickland, Director, Bands/Professor, Music
Adjunct Music Faculty
- George Faber, American Music & Piano
- John Floyd, Trombone
- John Gray, Music Appreciation & Voice
- Anna Larson, String Orchestra & Strings
- Erika Martinez, Flute
- Nancy Nichols, Music Appreciation & Piano
- Jessica Ogilvie, Music Appreciation
- Jeanie Oxler, Music Appreciation
- Kayla Roth, Music Appreciation
- Phil Rumbley, Electric Bass & Double Bass
- Tim Schodowski, Music Appreciation & American Music
- Tammy White, French horn
What Our Students Say
"The staff of the music department will always be very close to my heart. My voice teacher is still one of the most influential people in my life because I use the techniques she taught me every day on the job directing middle school choir in Tyler ISD. Upon leaving TJC I was more than equipped to enter SMU at the same level as the other juniors there."
Lonnie Cook
Choir Director, Three Lakes Middle School
"TJC prepared me in such a way that I am now an Opera Performance student of the Purchase College Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York in Purchase, New York. Upon arrival at my new institution, I knew without a doubt, I would never be here today without all I have gained from my alumni."
Julianne E. Casey
Student, State University of New York at Purchase
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