Vocal Music Ensembles, Certificate, and Degree Programs

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Overview

Collin College is home to several ensembles and musical groups, allowing you to explore your abilities with other like-minded musicians in a comfortable setting. College facilities even provide a venue to share your talent with the world.

Check with individual directors for audition music and requirements. All Collin College ensembles are "Lab required" courses, meaning, they meet for three contact (aka rehearsal) hours per week and students earn one credit hour. Prerequisite for most ensembles is an Audition.

Vocal Ensembles

This select only a capella group, OneSound, is one of Collin’s newer vocal groups. The group consists of 9-18 singers plus vocal percussionists aka beatboxers. OneSound performs their own arrangements as well as covers of current pop, jazz, and other contemporary music. They have competed in the International Collegiate Competition of A Capella (ICCA) for the past two years. They are the only Texas two-year colleges that has competed (placing 4th and 5th our of the 10 colleges/universities. There are several performances on and off campus each semester. To audition, email the director a video of you performing a pop song (or two) of your choice.

Contact Kathy Morgan at kmorgan@collin.edu

Visit OneSound Pop Acapella to learn more about the vocal group.

This is a study of opera through performances of scenes and full productions. Emphasis is placed on the musical and dramatic qualities of performance, preparation of character, and aspects of language diction from the selected production. Recent performances include Bizet’s Carmen and Mozart’s The Magic Flute.

Contact Casey Carter at ccarter@collin.edu

Chamber choir is a select audition-only choir devoted to performance of an eclectic repertory of choral literature for mixed voices (S.A.T.B.) at the advanced collegiate level. Concert repertoire varies from themed programs such as “Madrigals: Then and Now” “Romantic Choral music” and “Shakespeare settings” as well as larger choral works such as Orff’s Carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony both performed at Collin and with Irving Symphony under the direction of Maestro Guzman. In addition, the group has performed and acted as the chorus in Collin’s production of Bizet’s Carmen.

Contact Kathy Morgan at kmorgan@collin.edu

Music Field of Study

The Music field of study (FOS) provides approved courses for music majors who intend to transfer to a college or university and further their musical studies.

The curriculum offers the required music theory, ear training, keyboard skills, music literature, private applied study and ensemble participation that all music majors must complete during their freshman and sophomore years.

Certificate and Degree Programs

Upon completion of the field of study curriculum, a certificate will be awarded to acknowledge completion and readiness to transition from an associate level to a baccalaureate (BA/BS) level, at any Texas public institution.

A Field of Study is a set of courses that will transfer and apply to a corresponding bachelor’s - level degree at a Texas college or university. Both the Field of Study and the Core Curriculum courses are transferrable for full academic credit to any public college or university in Texas. Students who complete the Field of Study block of courses will earn a certificate in that Field of Study.

Did you know that you can also earn an AA or AS degree in addition to the Field of Study certificate? Contact us today to learn more about how to develop an educational plan that is right for you.