Complete your degree in Music!

Dr. Glen Brumbach is the Lead Faculty Advisor.
Email: g.brumbach@tamuct.edu For more information about the A&M-Central Texas music program, contact Glen Brumbach.

Music classrooms and faculty offices are located in the Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center (PAC facilities) at Temple College,
2487-2567 S. 5th St, Temple, TX 76504

• Dr. Sara Harris Baker
  • Director, Chorale, Entrepreneurship
  • Email: sara.baker@tamuct.edu
• Norm Bergeron
  • Director, Percussion Ensemble, Percussion Studies, Percussion Pedagogy, Technology Application Music (electronic music), Topics in Ethnomusicology
  • Email: norm.bergeron@tamuct.edu
• Dr. Glen Brumbach, Lead Faculty Advisor
  
  • Director, Symphonic Band, Brass Methods, Applied Trumpet, Music History, Band Repertoire, Conducting
    Email: g.brumbach@tamuct.edu
• Dr. Alex Corbett
  • Director, Orchestra, Orchestral Studies, Applied Violin, Applied Viola, Music History, String Methods
  • Email: alexander.corbett@tamuct.edu
• Dr. Benjamin Irom
  • Director, Jazz Studies, Jazz Piano, Form and Analysis, Orchestration
  • Email: benjamin.irom@tamuct.edu
• Teri Johnson
  • Director, Opera Workshop and applied Vocal Studies
  • Email: teri.johnson@tamuct.edu
• Dr. Colin Mason
  • Director, Jazz Ensemble, Saxophone Ensemble, Applied Saxophone
  • Email: colin.mason@tamuct.edu

Dr. Benjamin Irom, Director of Jazz Studies, Jazz Piano 
Dr. Colin Mason, Director, Jazz Ensemble and Sax Ensemble

The Jazz Ensemble is a twenty-piece "big band" comprised of traditional college students and community members. The group performs 2-4 concerts per year and performs in local/regional venues, high schools, and jazz festivals. Performing a wide variety of literature from traditional to contemporary, the ensemble gives one the opportunity to work on developing their skills in the jazz style and challenges the student rhythmically, technically, and harmonically.

Each spring music students at Temple College and
A&M Central Texas participate in the
Temple College Jazz Festival.

Audition-based select group.

Norm Bergeron Director, Percussion Ensemble and Percussion Studies.
The percussion ensemble performs a wide variety of literature from the music of the African Diaspora to contemporary compositions and arrangements. Instrumentation is varied and ranges from marimba duets to full pop percussion ensemble to ragtime xylophone quartets to Ghanain Ewe drumming ensemble, to Brazilian Batucada and Afro-Cuban Rumba. The group performs 2-4 concerts per year. Percussion students have access to a dedicated percussion studio for private practice, rehearsing, and percussion instrument storage in addition to dedicated marimba practice spaces.

Audition-based select group.

Dan Andersen teaches applied guitar, contemporary jazz/rock/blues guitar, and classical guitar. The guitar program is open to students who aspire to be professional performers, singer-songwriters, accompanists, music educators, and graduate students as well as recreational musicians. There are opportunities to play with the Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, and collaborate with other ensembles.

For more information contact Dr. Colin Mason. Email: colin.mason@tamuct.edu

Dr. Kate Bae, Applied Piano, Chamber Music, Piano Class, Piano Pedagogy, and Collaborative Piano

Dr. Benjamin Irom, Director of Jazz Studies, Jazz Piano, Form and Analysis, Orchestration

Opportunities are available for students to play in Chamber Music Ensembles, play with the Jazz Ensemble and perform concerto literature with the Temple College Orchestra.

Teri Johnson, Director, Opera Workshop, teaches Applied Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Foreign Language Diction for Singers and Vocal Literature. If a student is aspiring to become a K-12 choral director and pursue music education then the Mus. Ed degree intensive is recommended with teaching certification at the end of the Senior year. For students interested in pursuing vocal performance in opera or musical theatre then the performance degree is recommended. Weekly lessons include covering repertoire across multiple time periods, languages, and styles in preparation for the Junior or Senior recital.

Opera Workshop takes place each fall semester. Performances take place in the Jackson-Graeter Backstage Theatre. Performance opportunities are available through the college in both opera workshop and at least one musical production a year. There are also opportunities for music and stage directing experience.   
Opera Workshop is an audition-based select group.