Commercial Music–Performance Program
Contact: Carl Richardson
Office: Performing Arts Center, Office 138
Email: richardsoncc@lamarpa.edu
Phone: 409-984-6353
The Commercial Music–Performance Program is designed to prepare students for jobs as musicians in the entertainment industry.
Employment opportunities include session musician, live venue musician, music arranger/orchestrator, beat maker, producer, and songwriter. Potential employers include entertainment venues, audio production companies, recording studios, publishing companies, and independent soundtrack producers. Other opportunities available in the field when sufficient work experience is combined with academic preparation includes record production, publishing, artist management, concert promotion, venue management, music merchandising, and teaching.
Graduates have a strong background in appropriate core sub-disciplines of ensemble performance, music theory, arranging and composing music, and music business training. Laboratory training encompasses state-of-the-art instruments, and materials and techniques employed in the commercial music industry.
Students must earn a minimum grade of ‘C’ in all courses in the Recommended Program of Study.