Commercial Music Certficate Program

Commercial Music Certificate curriculum has been designed to provide the student with means to acquire valuable knowledge, expertise, and marketable skills with which to obtain employment in the following areas:

Instrumental Performer - (select from the instrumental specialties listed)

Brass
Guitar
Organ
Percussion
Piano
Strings
Woodwinds
Vocal Performer
Orchestrator/Arranger
Music Copyist
Music Technology

Each Certificate is made up of four skill levels. A Skills Certificate will be awarded by the Music Department upon application by the student to the Department showing satisfactory completion of the requirements for each level. A Commercial Music Certificate will be awarded by the Music Department to a student who has successfully completed the four levels required for a given specialty.

Please note that 0.5 unit labs do not count toward Skills Certificates.

Each student is responsible for filing an official application with the Music Department Chair for any of the Skill Certificates offered. Official applications should be picked up in the Music Office (CH 244).

An unofficial worksheet showing the course requirements for each specialty and each level is available here by clicking on the linked certificates listed above. This is for your use only. You will need to pick-up an official application in the Music Office (CH 244) and complete that official form in order to apply for any Skill Certificate.