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Las Positas College

Las Positas College

Music Department

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Registration For Fall Is Now Open!

  1. Visit Admissions & Records today to complete your "Six Steps to Success".
  2. View our Program Offerings to plan out your goals. We offer an AA-T and AA in Music in addition to certificates in Music Business, Music Technology, Scoring for Film and Multimedia, Jazz Studies, and Piano Teaching Fundamentals, Teaching Beginning Piano, Teaching Intermediate Piano, and as of Fall 2024, Piano Technology!
  3. Review our Ensemble Offerings to join a performing ensemble. 
  4. Join our tight-knit community of music students!
 

About the LPC Music Department 

The LPC Music Department offers an AA and AA-T degrees in Music, as well as stackable certificates in Scoring for Film and Multimedia, Music Business, Piano Teaching, Music TechnologyJazz Studies, and as of Fall 2024, Piano Technology!

The department offers Applied one-on-one lessons on a variety of instruments as well as voice and composition. Students who complete the Applied program are well-equipped to successfully audition for Bachelor programs in Music. Notable LPC alumni have transferred to such distinguished music programs as UCLA, the New School, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge (CSUN), Berklee School of Music, and many more.

Students have multiple opportunities to perform, compose, produce, and participate in a variety of events - both on campus and in the community - throughout the semester. Performance ensembles include Chamber and Concert Choirs, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, and Chamber Orchestra.

The recording studio "The Hawks Nest" houses state-of-the-art equipment and software, and is available for Music students to record and produce music at a professional level.

In 2022, Las Positas College acquired a Steinway Spirio | r (the world's finest high-resolution player piano capable of recording and editing) and thus earned the coveted All-Steinway School designation, joining the ranks of other elite colleges and universities worldwide. 

Las Positas College strives to provide a rigorous, creative, and fun learning environment that prepares students for the real-world expectations of the music industry as well as 4-year music programs.

Follow your passions and join our supportive and nurturing community today! 

LPC Music Department News 

  • We are currently in the design phase of a brand new recording studio and keyboard lab which will be housed in the 500 building. It is scheduled to open in Spring 2027!
  • 2025 Summer Jazz Camp was a huge success! We welcomed over 40 Highschool students and worked on improvisation, arranging, and performed a public concert honoring the life and legacy of saxophone great Benny Golson. Next year 2026, the jazz camp theme will be Duke Ellington!
  • We are thrilled to announce that our new Certificate of Achievement in Piano Technology has been approved by the state as of Fall 2024. More info about this truly unique program can be found here.
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