Applied Music

The Applied Music program offers students individual music lessons in piano, organ, voice, electric and acoustic guitar, and all band and orchestral instruments. Music styles include both classical and jazz.

Included in the program are lessons, coaching, class accompanist services, as well as practice space with a piano, and access to the many resources of the ECC Music Library. The Applied Music program offers students the opportunity to develop their artistic talent and to sharpen their performance and audition skills. In addition, Applied Music students gain the opportunity to network with other serious music students.

Applied Music Instructors

The Applied Music Instructors are experienced, certificated and professional musicians. Instructors are part of the 35 plus member staff which includes both full-time and adjunct faculty members. Jump to Applied Music Faculty Biographies

Registration

The Applied Music program is offered during the Fall and Spring semesters. Students must apply and be accepted into the Applied Music program before they may register. Acceptance is by audition. Students should begin their application process approximately two weeks before the beginning of the Fall or Spring semester and follow the audition instructions below. Jump to to Apply Auditions.

Eligibility

The Applied Music Program is designed for El Camino Music majors and students, both full- and part-time, who are serious about improving their performance skills and have already reached at least an intermediate level of proficiency. Students must also be prepared to devote adequate time to the program. An audition is required for entrance to the program.

High school students (11th & 12th grades only) may audition for the program but must compete with college students for acceptance.

Program Requirements

Students accepted into the Applied Music program are required to do the following:

1. Enroll in one unit of Music 23 (or Music 90 for Music majors who have already successfully completed four semester of Music 23), committing to a weekly individual lesson and a weekly recital class

2. Enroll concurrently in one of the large performance ensemble classes at El Camino College

- Instrumentalists choose from:
  Music 64 Symphonic Band, Music 65 College Community Band, Music 67 Big Band Jazz, Music 68 Jazz Band, Music 70 Symphony Orchestra, Music 71 Chamber Orchestra Instrumental Ensembles
- Vocalists choose from:
  Music 51 Mixed Chorus, Music 52 Concert Choir, Music 53 Chorale, Music 55 College Community Choir, Music 57 Women's Chorus Choral Ensembles
- Pianists and guitarists
  You may choose from any of the above, but the instrumental group acceptance may be limited.

3. Practice 6 hours every week on campus

4. Attend three professional music performances at ECC and in the community

To Apply

To apply to the Applied Music program:

1. Complete an Applied Music Application form. Applied Music Application

2. Provide a letter of reference from a music teacher addressing your musical ability, reliability and commitment.

3. Schedule an audition appointment in the Fine Arts Division Office (Music Building Room 101) approximately two weeks before the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters.

4. Audition.

Auditions

Auditions are held 8:30 am - 4:30 pm on the Saturday preceding the first week of instruction of the Fall and Spring semesters. For the audition, you should prepare a brief musical composition (no more than five minutes) that demonstrates your musicianship and technical achievement.

AUDITIONS FOR FALL 2012 will be held Saturday, August 25 between 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Bring to the audition:

The completed Applied Music Application to your audition.
A letter of recommendation from a teacher attesting to your musical ability, reliability, and commitment.
Your sheet music. An accompanist will be provided.

At the audition:

Perform a brief musical composition (no more than 5 minutes) that demonstrates your musicianship and technical achievement in the area of Classical, Jazz, or Musical Theater.
You may be asked to sight read and play or sing music excerpts and scales.

After the Audition

Students will be notified of audition results in the evening of the day of auditions. Accepted students must register by adding the class online with an add sticker provided after the audition.

For more information about the Applied Music program contact:

Dane Teter, Director of Instrumental Music, Marsee Aud. Rm 129, (310) 660-3593 x3732
dteter@elcamino.edu

Applied Music Faculty Biographies

For contact information, please consult the Faculty Directory

BASSOON:

DANE TETER: D.M.A., USC. M.A., B.A., CSU Chico. Specializing in woodwind pedagogy and Music Education. Performs and teaches Classical music, chamber music, and jazz on all woodwind instruments. Director of Instrumental Music and Coordinator of the Applied Music Program at El Camino College. Performed with the Santa Ana Symphony, Bellflower Symphony, Cypress Pops Orchestra, a myriad of chamber ensembles, and in numerous musical theatre pit orchestras throughout Southern California.

CELLO:

MANON ROBERTSHAW: M.M. Univ. Wisc., B.M. USC. Specializing in Classical, ensemble, chamber music. She has studied with renowned cellists Gabor Rejto (USC), Radu Aldulescu (Maastricht Conservatory, Holland), and Wolfgang Laufer (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee). Ms. Robertshaw is the State president of the American String Teachers Association. She is a a member of Musicians Union Local #47, ASTA, MENC and MTAC, where she served on the State Board for four years. Her former students are now members of professional orchestra and string quartets. She has produced a CD for cello and Native American flutes, with flutist Tom Thompson. Ms. Robertshaw is on the faculty at UC Riverside and Loyola Marymount University.

FLUTE:

MARIA JAQUE: M.M., B.M., USC. Specializing in solo flute and chamber music literature.

PATRICIA MAKI: M.M., USC. Specializing in orchestral and chamber music. Principal flutist with Downey, Marina, Culver City Symphonies and numerous other orchestras throughout Southern California. Studio musician, recording artist, chamber music specialist and contractor of ensembles and orchestras throughout the greater Los Angeles area. She is the founder and coordinator of Campus Concerts, an education outreach program serving Southern California. A former of the El Camino College student, Ms. Maki returned to serve as coordinator of Applied Music at ECC. Her students have successfully transferred to major universities throughout the state and country, have been awarded many scholarships, and have gone on to become professional musicians and teachers.

FRENCH HORN:

ANNIE BOSLER: D.M.A., USC. Freelance musician. Specializing in orchestral and chamber music. Teaches at Colburn School.

GUITAR:

JOHN DEARMAN: Specializing in Classical. USC Outstanding Alumnus 1997; Founding member of the Grammy-winning LA Guitar Quartet. Director of the Guitar Program at UCSB.

MATT GREIF: B.M., M.M., USC. USC guitar program Outstanding Graduate (1989, 1992). Specializing in classical and jazz guitar. Member of the LA Guitar Quartet.

RICHARD HASTINGS: USC. Specializing in jazz, pop & Classical guitar.

CHRIS MELLO: D.M.A., USC. An active performer in the L.A. studio scene, he has performed/recorded with: Ernie Watts, Norah Jones, Idina Menzel, Justo Almario, Vanessa Williams, the Dixie Chicks, Cafe Tacuba, Paulina Rubio, Jeff Kashiwa, Paul Schaeffer, Giovanni Hidalgo, Dan Higgins, Katia Moraes, Bill Cunlife, Bobby Shew, Shelly Berg, and a host of others. Additionally, Chris has recorded for Vh-1, Taco Bell, Verizon Wireless, Latin Grammy Awards, Disney, and worked in the orchestras of numerous Broadway Theater productions in New York. In 2006 he released his own recording, “THE GLOBAL VILLAGE” which highlights a tapestry of global musical influences from Cuba to Brazil to Africa. Dr. Mello has taught at Cerritos College, USC, Bethesda University, University of North Texas, Rio Hondo College, and El Camino College. He has written numerous guitar instruction texts, including "The Latin Guitar Handbook" for MEL BAY Publishing. He has served as a featured columnist for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine and LAJAZZ.com. As director of the Guitar Program at ECC, Dr. Mello teaches guitar courses and coordinates all activities and events for the guitar department.

LARRY STEEN: Electric Bass Guitar. M.F.A., Jazz and African-American Music Performance, CALARTS. B.M. (Magna Cum Laude), Studio Music and Jazz, University of Miami (FL), Berklee College of Music. Winner of the International Society of Bassists’ Jazz Competition. Has performed with Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Jimmy Buffet, etc. Recorded extensively for film, television, radio and CDs which include his own world jazz releases First Move and View From Afar (LarrySteen.com) with Ernie Watts, Dave Weckl, Robben Ford, Russell Ferrante, etc.

ORGAN:

JAMES HURD: D.M.A., USC. Specializing in church music, solo repertoire, and gospel music.

PIANO:

DEBORAH AITKEN: M.A. CSUN, accompanying. B.M. USC, piano performance. Specializing in solo, concerto and chamber repertoire. Studied in Milan, Italy at the Verdi Conservatory, Rome, Italy at Santa Cecilia. In Paris she was awarded a grant to study French music. Performs internationally in solo and concerto music, and in collaboration. Eleven and Mu Phi Epsilon.

POLLI CHAMBERS-SALAZAR: DMA, USC. Director of Piano Studies at El Camino College. Ms. Chambers-Salazar has appeared on KCBS Television and KUSC Radio, and has recored "First Flight," a CD of solo piano music by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Boulander, and Coleridge-Taylor. In March she presented "Sound and Color: Henri Matisse and the Music of his Time" at the Norton Simon Museum of Art. This concert was the seventh in a series of multi-media performances given at the museum by Ms. Chambers-Salazar.

KRISTI LOBITZ: USC. Specializing in Classical piano. Teaches at Loyola Marymount Univ.

LOIS ROBERTS: Juilliard, Mannes College, CSULB. Specializing in Classical repertoire, solo, chamber and orchestral. Ms. Roberts entered The Juilliard School in the upper division at the age of 11 after her New York Town Hall debut. She studied with Josef Raieff, Albert Fuller, Guido Agosti, and Konrad Wolff. In addition to her degrees from Juilliard, she was awarded the Diploma di Merito at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. She has concertized in the U.S. and in Europe and has taught at American Boychoir and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. Ms. Roberts is also on the faculty at Santa Monica Community College. Her students are accepted into the finest schools of music including Juilliard, Mannes, and Manhattan.

JAZZ PIANO:

MARK MASSEY: M.A. CSULB, Composition. Received the Carmen Dragon Fellowship for Composition (1990). Performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Russian, the Far East, and India. Worked with Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Stephane Grappelli, Louie Bellson, Maynard Ferguson and many others. Features guest at the Moscow Jazz Festival (2001). Toured the U.S. for 6 weeks with Side Street Strutters (2004), summer tour in Japan (2007, 2008) with Scott Martin Latin Jazz Band. On faculty at CSU Fullerton, currently teaching at OSCHA. Mr. Massey has taught jazz piano, theory, and composition privately for over 25 years. www.markmassey.com

STRING BASS:

CHRISTOPH LUTY: M.M. USC, B.M. Univ. Utah. Specializing in jazz, pop, and classical string bass and electric bass. Presently tours and records witht he Jeff Hamilton Trio, and the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Has Collaborated with artists including Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Clark Terry, Dave Brubeck, James Moody, Shirley Horn, Michael Buble and Charles Aznavour. He may be heard on recordings with Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, John Pizzarelli and many more. Mr. Luty has performed nationally and internationally with Benny Green, Dena DeRose, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, Curtis Stigers, Bill Watrous, Jeff Clayton, Bill Cunliffe, Anthony Wilson, Howlett Smith, and many others.

NEIL STANNARD: DMA, MS Juilliard. Classical Double Bass. Performed with American Symphony Orchestra, Marlboro Festival Orchestra and principal bassist with Juilliard Orchestra. Performed with Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Pablo Casals and numerous others. Recorded with Columbia Records. Taught applied strings and piano at University of Texas, El Paso for 13 years. His students have made careers performing in symphonic and jazz idioms or as teachers at both secondary and university levels.

VOICE:

RHONDA DILLON: M.M., USC, Choral Conducting, B.M., USC, Voice. Specializing in application of Classical techniques to concert and theatre music. Also teaches at Cerritos College and the Stella Adler Institute. Member of SAG, AEA, NATS, and AGMA. Played in every company of Phantom of the Opera in the US. Her voice can be heard on several motion picture soundtracks. Her students are singing on Broadway and in major university programs.

BARBARA DYER: USC. Specializing in Classical and opera. Teaches at Loyola Marymount Univ.

RHONA KLINGHOFER: B.M., M.M., Juilliard School. (Invited by legendary, late, mezzo-soprano, Jennie Tourel) Teaches a variety of musical styles. Expert in body work for singers and teaching Singing-Yoga Workshops. Performed with The Philharmonia Virtuosi, Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Pacific, Lake George Opera, Opera Pacific, The N.Y. Shakespeare and Strafford Co. as well as musical theater venues and recitals in the US and abroad. Her Students have gone on to attend prestigious universities, win competitions and scholarships at the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, jazz, rock, and musical theater venues, and sing professionally.

VICKI MUTO: D.M.A., USC, vocal performance. Specializing in opera and musical theatre. As a soprano, she has received awards in vocal competitions such as McAllister Awards, Baltimore Opera, Liederkranz Competition and the Metropolitan Opera. She has performed leading roles opposite Richard Leech and Debra Voigt and sung operatic roles with the tri-Cities Opera in upstate New York. Her students have placed and won vocal competitions in Southern California and been awarded scholarships and professional engagements in Europe. She teaches private voice at ECC, USC, and Pasadena City College and directs the Opera Workshop at ECC.

HEDLEY NOSWORTHY: M.M., Post-Graduate, USC. B.M.S. Wheaton College. Full-time professor at ECC teaching all levels of voice classes. Specializing in opera, musical theatre, concert, recital, and folk idioms. Member of National Association of Teachers of Singing, where he has served as an officer and a judge of vocal competitions. His students have won international voice competitions throughout the world and can be heard on Broadway, in major opera houses in the US and in Europe, and in commercial music. Author of successful voice text book Simply Singing.