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The Pacific Union College Department of Music provides opportunities to understand, appreciate and perform great music. Our goal is to provide students with learning opportunities in theory, music history, ensembles, music education and performance. We train students to be performers, teachers, scholars and creators. We also encourage the development of an aesthetic, analytical and historical understanding of and appreciation for great music.
In addition, the department emphasizes social development through sharing of musical experiences in both performing and listening opportunities. We prepare the student for further study in graduate and professional school. Our students are involved in performances in church and worship services, teaching music lessons using techniques learned in pedagogy classes, participation in local, state and national musical contests, tours to such places as New York, Hawaii, Singapore, Scandinavia, Russia, and Australia, summer workshops, and the use of midi electronic instruments.
Fast Facts
- National statistics show that 66 percent of music students applying to medical schools are accepted, while only 44 percent of bio-chem majors who apply receive acceptance letters.
- The music department is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honor society in music, through its Theta Zeta chapter.
- The mission of the music department is to prepare professional musicians and to educate students in developing enduring principles of beauty and truth in music.
Music
Pacific Union College
One Angwin Avenue
Angwin, CA 94508
Phone: (707) 965-6201
Fax: (707) 965-6738
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- Department Update In January the music department began outfitting a new computer lab for music synthesis and recording. It features four new computers, each with their own midi controller (a piano-like keyboard), cubase software, microphones and mixing boards. Asher Raboy explains that the lab will allow students to learn music technology through courses offered by the music department, will be a resource for composers and orchestrators who wish to create music electronically, and is a tool that can be used for enhancing church services, composing film scores, producing PSAs and a host of other applications.
- Department Update Craig (enrollment) and Linda (music) Philpott "just returned from a cool photography trip to Maine and Nova Scotia. We took cool pictures of fall colors, we took cool pictures of little villages and light houses. We also stood in the freezing cold, being whipped by a cold wind, blowing cold snow while taking pictures of an ice-cold water fall — it was all very cool."
- Department Update The Music Department welcomes two new faces to our musical team. Dennis Hunt is teaching percussion, trumpet and banjo through PCCA and shares his expertise with the college students by teaching Percussion Techniques and directing the Big Band ensemble. Joy Fackenthall joins the PCCA and music department team as a piano instructor. Her husband, Peter is the new PUC Prep principal.
At the annual River Festival in Napa on September 6, Asher Raboy was awarded the Key to the City of Napa by Napa Mayor Jill Techel and commendations from Representative Mike Thompson, the Friends of the Napa River, and Assemblywoman Noreen Evans. Raboy started the River Festival, which is the Friends of the Napa River's biggest fundraising event, 20 years ago.
- Department Update Lynn Wheeler recently served as chair of two accreditation teams for the National Association of Schools of Music, evaluating music programs for the University of South Carolina at Aiken and Bethany College in Lyndsborg, Kansas. "During the visit to Bethany College it was great getting to work with a team member, Dr. Peter Cooper, from Southern Adventist University," Lynn reports.
- Big Names in Theatre Rehearse and Workshop at PUC For the small theatre
company at Pacific Union College, January brought a memorable week inspired by
the expertise and creativity of three theatre professionals.