Department of Music
Make Music. Find Your Sound. Build Your Future.
Music isn't just something you study at MCC; it's something you live. Whether you're aiming for the stage, the classroom, or the studio, our Department of Music gives you the training, the community, and the experiences to take your next big step.
Career Opportunities
Music graduates go on to become:
- Performance (artist, session musician, freelance)
- Education (classroom teacher, private instructor, professor)
- Composer (publishing, licensing, film/TV, video games)
- Production & technology (producer, audio engineer, sound designer)
- Music business (manager, promoter, administrator)
- Music therapy (clinical practice)
Earning Potential
Music educator (post-secondary): $87k
Performance: $50+/hr
Music Director and Composer: $85k
Music Repair: $55k
For more salary information, check out Texas Wages.
Our Vision
Music is an essential part of human life, found in every culture across the globe. MCC’s Department of Music, long recognized for excellence, will contribute to the advancement of music through widely visible and impactful creative activity, scholarship, and research. It will prepare the next generation of musical leaders as professional performers, composers, and educators, and through offerings for general students, foster in the next generation of societal leaders, appreciation, and support for music’s value and centrality to society.
Our Mission
The Department of Music at McLennan Community College is a friendly, vibrant, student-oriented unit in an institution of higher learning that serves as an accessible, responsive, and creative intellectual resource for the people and institutions of McLennan County. The faculty and staff of the department strive to meet the educational needs of a diverse student body through instruction, performance, scholarship, and public service. Additionally, the department fosters the highest standards of teaching in its undergraduate program and supports the establishment and continuation of a just and moral society through its own accomplishments, the work of its faculty and staff, and the achievements of its graduates.
The McLennan Tradition
Since 1966, the MCC Department of Music has been launching musicians into great careers. We prepare music majors to transfer to four-year universities and give the whole MCC community access to incredible musical experiences.
As a MCC student, you can:
- Perform in major ensembles.
- Study privately with full-time professional musicians.
- Build a foundation that transfers smoothly to universities.
Our alumni are out there right now — teaching, performing, and shaping the music world across Texas and beyond.
Our Facilities
The Department of Music is right at the heart of campus, in the Wilbur A. Ball Performing Arts Center and the Music & Theatre Arts Building. Facilities include the 520-seat Bosque River Stage, a 360-seat concert hall, a 100-seat recital hall, sound-proof practice rooms, a fully-computerized music learning lab, Yamaha electronic piano lab, recording studio, rehearsal halls, as well as studio offices. MCC is an All-Steinway institution.
