Pursue your music passion with FLC's Music Program

Become prepared to succeed as a performer, educator, promoter, or producer in today's musical world. Our small classes, never taught by graduate assistants, provide you with individualized attention. The Music Program faculty is unequaled by any comparable institution in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Accredited by NASM

We are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Your future employers and graduate program admission boards will know you're receiving a quality education.

Music program students will experience the following learning outcomes:

  • Musical Mastery
    • Master their instruments. If they're studying performance, they'll be really good at their main instrument.
    • Understand music and be able to use that knowledge to teach music, work in the music industry, or perform music.
  • Examining Musical Practices (Problem Solving)
    Study and talk about music from different cultures and time periods, and be able to explain their thoughts about it to help them in music careers.
  • Community Engagement (Communication and Professionalism)
    Use music to bring people together and help them learn about different cultures.
  • Professionalism
    • Make materials that show they're ready to work in music teaching, the music industry, or as a performer.
    • Show respect, be responsible, and do what they say they will do.
  • Effective Pedagogy (K-12 Education Only) (Problem Solving and Communication)
    Learn how to communicate with and teach music to elementary and high school students.

Upcoming music events

November
10

FLC Wind Band and FLC Orchestra

3:00 PM

Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College

$10 for adults, Those 18 and under and FLC students, FLC Faculty and Staff admitted free of charge

Join the FLC Chamber Orchestra and FLC Wind Ensemble for a joint concert on November 10, 2024, at 7 pm in the FLC Community Concert Hall. The orchestra will open with Symphony Op. 11, No. 2 in D major by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a charming classical era symphony. The program also includes works by Carl Nielsen, Brian Balmages, and Charles Ives’ existential The Unanswered Question. After a brief intermission, the FLC Wind Ensemble will perform works highlighting mythologies, explorations, and emotions inspired by outer space. Their program includes compositions from Katahj Copley, Leonard Bernstein, Jennifer Rose, Gustav Holst, and Chang Su Koh. The program starts with looking out at space from Earth. A brilliant fanfare from Copley will open the second half, followed by Bernstein’s well-known Simple Song. We leave Earth with Winds of Mars by Jennifer Rose—a World Premiere—which uses electronics and sounds recorded by the NASA Perseverance Rover to personify the winds on the surface of Mars. The program will finish with Holst’s Mars: The Bringer of War from The Planets and Chang Su Koh’s Lament for Wind Orchestra. While Rose’s composition personifies Mars physically, Holst’s work personifies Mars as the mythological figure unrelenting in the pursuit of war. After Mars the myth, Chang Su Koh’s Lament for Wind Orchestra offers a song of grief or morning, in stark contrast to the simple songs the program opened with. We hope you can join us for an evening of incredible music!

November
17

Philip Molik, Clarinet, Senior Recital

5:00 PM

Roshong Recital Hall

Free Admission

November
18

William Bridges, Trombone, Senior Recital

7:30 PM

Roshong Recital Hall

Free Admission

Day and Night Music