The Department of Music at California State University is a conservatory in Los Angeles, California. There are more than 500 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in music.

The Music Department at the California State University, Northridge offers studying and performing opportunities in connection with the leading educational institutions and cultural venues of the Los Angeles area.

Faculty Gregg Bissonette, drums John Dearman, guitar Scott Glasgow, film and media composition Liviu Marinescu, composition Bob McChesney, jazz trombone John Pisano, jazz guitar Ron Purcell, guitar Andrew Surmani, music industry studies Steven Thachuk guitar

Areas of study Bachelor of Arts

Music Industry Studies Music Therapy Breadth Studies in Music Music Education

Bachelor of Music

Commercial & Media Composition Composition Strings Woodwinds Brass Percussion Piano Voice Jazz Performance Classical Guitar

Master of Arts Music education Music industry administration

Master of Music

Conducting Composition Strings Woodwinds Brass Percussion Piano Organ Voice Classical Guitar

Notable alumni Brass Ronnie Blake trumpet Tony Clements tuba

Composition Beverly Grigsby composer Kentaro Sato Media and Commercial Music / Conducting (MA) George Stone (composer) composer Jeannie G. Pool composer Garrett Byrnes composer Stephen Cohn composer John Coda composer

Percussion Kalani percussion Alphonse Mouzon percussion

Piano Gordon Goodwin piano

Strings Ron Purcell classical guitar Robert Lipsett violin John Doan guitar Bruce Bransby bass

Voice Michelle DeYoung voice James Fortune voice Maia Sharp voice Nicole Cabell voice

Woodwinds Vicki Boeckman recorder, flute D. Scott Rogo oboe

Jazz Alphonso Johnson bass Kim Pensyl keyboard Richard Campbell bass guitar John Densmore jazz studies Michael Glenn Williams composer, pianist Masauko Chipembere Jr jazz studies

Other Toshiyuki Shimada conductor Paul Roessler singer Sebu Simonian singer-songwriter Leland Sklar singer, film composer James Lee Stanley singer-songwriter Tigran Arakelyan conductor

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20111007161637/http://amc.csun.edu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110819093714/http://www.csunmusictherapy.org/index.htm http://www.kcsn.org/

External links http://www.csun.edu/music/