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Music Education, Music Performance

  • Major
  • Minor

Shape the world with sound.

Overview

We offer two majors, music performance and music education, for you to grow your dedication to vocal or instrumental performance and teach others to share their gift. Our faculty know that music is a passion and encourage you, regardless of your major, to continue your music career in college by offering scholarships to both music and non-music majors.  All students are eligible for up to $28,000/year in combined GPA and music scholarship with an audition.

Majors

  • Music Education

    Build proficiencies that enable you to share your love of music with a new generation of musicians.

  • Music Performance

    Explore music theory and refine your talent.

Music Education

A faster time-to-degree than any other traditional music education program in Kansas. The new streamlined degree offers a more efficient and practical approach that allows students to trim a semester, or even a year, off their college experience.

Less time. Less cost. More real-world preparation.

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Ensembles

Choir Rehearsal
You bring the dream. Music

  • Ensembles

    College Choir,

    Choir includes students from across campus and allows students a safe place to strive for musical excellence while being exposed to a wide variety of styles and vocal approaches. While previous choral experience is helpful, anyone can sign up for the group if they are interested. College Choir performs both on and off campus and is committed to bringing choral music into the lives of the McPherson community in new and exciting ways.

  • Ensembles

    Concert Band & Jazz Band,

    Both the concert and jazz bands are comprised of students from a wide variety of majors, academic disciplines, and activities across campus. They all share a passion for making music in college. The concert and jazz bands were both selected to perform at our state’s music convention (KMEA) in 2022 – the only private collegiate band program selected to perform that year, and it was the concert band’s third straight year to be selected in eligible years. The jazz band was again selected to perform at KMEA in 2025, the only private college jazz band selected that year.

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Our Space

Take a video and 360° virtual tours of the instrumental and vocal spaces in Hess - home to the Music, Art & Design programs at McPherson College.

Hess Fine Arts Center
Choir Rehearsal Room
Campus Map

  • Faculty Video Tour

    Professors from arts and music programs give you a walking tour through Hess Fine Arts Center.

  • 360° Virtual Tour

    Walk through the music spaces in Hess.

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Faculty & Staff

  • Isaac Hopkins D.M.A.

    • Adjunct Instructor of Brass

  • Kyle Hopkins M.M.

    • Associate Professor of Music
    • Director of Bands
    • “Throughout history, whenever humans have been faced with the ultimate questions of life and existence, they have relied upon music in their search for meaning. So I am passionate about teaching music and strive to pass on my love of music to my students. I have high expectations for my students to succeed at whatever their individual skill level is. I want them to experience music at its best so they can experience life at its best.”

  • Brett Janssen

    • Adjunct Instructor of Piano

  • Jean Kennedy B.M.

    • Adjunct Guitar Instructor
    • “I am passionate about the guitar, in all of its styles, and sharing that with my students is a real joy. My goal as a guitar instructor is to fill each student’s musical toolbox with the essentials they need to continue learning, enjoying, and sharing the music that they find personally fulfilling.”

  • Andrew Jacob Voth D.M.A.

    • Assistant Professor of Music
    • Director of Choral Activities
    • "My teaching philosophy is all about helping students discover their own musical passion and curiosity. This means holding my students and myself to high standards of performance as well as thinking critically about the music we sing. Choir is one of the few collaborative activities that is potentially accessible to people throughout their entire lives, and I seek to provide students with both the skills and the desire to sing even after they leave school."

  • Gregg Walker M.M.Ed.

    • Adjunct Instructor of Woodwinds
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