Hillsboro - Texas Music Education Primer

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Hill College 2
112 Lamar Drive
Hillsboro, TX 76645
(254) 659-7882; Fax (254) 582-7591
plowe[at]NOSPAMhillcollege.edu
Phillip Lowe, Chairman
Shirley Erickson, Director of Choral & Keyboard Activites
Larry McCord, Music Instructor

Music Department Statistics
Year department established: 1962
Undergraduate students: 50
Graduate students:
Doctoral students:
Full-time professors: 3
Part-time instructors: 1
Student-Teacher ratio: NA
Undergraduate degree hours needed: NA
(within major: 66; within minor: NA)
Teaching certification: no
Internship required: no
Recording facility: no
Scholarships available: yes
General performance scholarships are available.
Scholarship coordinator and phone: NA

Accreditations/Affiliations
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Texas Association of Music Schools
Texas Music Educators Association

Hill College is the home of an established music program and provides music students with a number of performance opportunities. These include a band, jazz band, brass group, choir and vocal ensemble, and community choir. In addition, Hill College sponsors a performing arts series featuring a wide variety of outside artists. This series is maintained through a strong base of donors and contributors and takes place at the Vara Martin Daniel Performing arts center. Performance opportunities include: band, jazz band, brass group, choir, and vocal ensemble, and a community choir. Concert facilities include the Vara Martin Daniel Performing Arts Center (approximately 400 seats).

Overall enrollment: 2,500
Typical undergraduate tuition: NA