BA in Music
Coker University — Hartsville, SC
About this program
Coker's NASM-accredited BA in Music combines a rigorous music curriculum with Coker's distinctive round-table learning model, providing one-on-one attention from faculty who are experienced teachers, professional performers, directors, and clinicians with doctoral degrees. The program offers performance, composition, and music history tracks within a flexible liberal arts framework. Faculty include **Dr. Reed Hanna** (instrumental ensembles; rhanna@coker.edu), **Professor Pingyi Song** (choral ensembles; psong@coker.edu), **Dr. Graham Wood** (Professor of Music; French horn; British musicologist; gwood@coker.edu), **Dr. Elizabeth Holmes** (voice; eholmes@coker.edu, 843-383-8269), **Dr. Kevin Crowe** (Director of Choral Ensembles and the Southern Singing Festival), and **Dr. Jeremiah Padilla** (piano). The **Margaret Coker Lawton Music Building** houses dedicated practice rooms, world-class Steinway instruments, large classrooms, and the Music Recital Hall. The **Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center** contains the Watson Theatre (466-seat) for major productions. Coker maintains non-auditioned performing groups open to all students — **Coker Band** (directed by Graham Wood; two Masterworks and two Pops Concerts per year; gwood@coker.edu), **Coker Contemporary Chorus** (mixed voices; Broadway, jazz, pop, gospel, current styles), and **Coker Civic Chorale** (community open ensemble). The **Coker Singers** is the only auditioned ensemble. The **Opera Workshop** stages one-act operas and musical theatre scenes with living composers. The annual **Southern Singing Festival** brings high school and college students together under direction of specialists in traditionally Southern singing styles.
Audition & application overview
- Requires a dance audition
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