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• Since 1992, the number of music majors at Lake Michigan College has grown from 3 to 25

• Lake Michigan College music students have transferred into prestigious four-year institutions, majoring in choral and instrumental music education, music therapy, performance and pedagogy, music librarianship, recording technology, and church music

• Outreach activities include middle school/high school clinics, workshops, and recitals; Monday Musical performances; Fernwood WAUS Second Sunday series; Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra concerts; Southshore Concert Band summer outreach & mall concerts; Jazz Band performances at the Box Factory for the Arts and more

• The Lake Michigan College music faculty includes active solo, chamber and orchestral musicians, experienced ensemble directors, published composers, and ward-winning classroom teachers

• Since 1992, overall enrollment in music courses at Lake Michigan College has increased from 307 to 585

• Community participants in the Lake Michigan College music program comprise a diverse group who pursue the study of music for personal enrichment: music department alumni, dual enrollment high school students, international students, young professionals, retirees, as well as members of the LMC community

"Ever since I started going to LMC, so many opportunities have opened up for me..."
-Ryan Hofstra, current LMC student and work study in the Music Department