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
Department Advising Contacts
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Collin College Music and Field of Study, Voice and Opera Prof. Casey L. Carter |
Choirs, Theory, and General Music Advising Prof. Kathy Morgan |
Composition, Commercial Music Majors and Certificates Dr. Chris Morgan |
Frisco Campus Music Studies Dr. Kimberly Harris |
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Guitar Studies and Field of Study Music Majors Dr. Fernand Vera |
Instrumental and Jazz Studies Advising Pete Weise |
Keyboard Studies Advising Dr. Brian Allison |
McKinney Campus Music Studies Dr. Alicja Usarek |
If you want to learn more about other music programs, please visit Music Department.